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Self Evident

·1 min
Author
Lance Barker
Exploring my own creative expression and building things that help people.
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Overview
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A one-act play, written with my friend Ed Gehrman, and with a nod to Arthur Young, being produced as an AI-generated film — theatrical staging, not cinema. Play One of a series called The Messengers.

What It Is
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Benjamin Franklin, a garden at midnight, and something that finds him there. Ed dictates, I transcribe and shape, and together we’re building a full production: script, staging, character design, and AI-generated video — rendered in a deliberately theatrical register of painted flats and stage lighting rather than photorealism.

Read the origin story: Self Evident. A One-Act Play. →

Follow Along
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Production is ongoing and the day-to-day — render tests, voice casting, shots that don’t survive contact with the tools — gets logged as it happens.

Self Evident: Project State →

Status
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In progress. Play One is written; the film is in active production. Play Two, from the same series, is next.


Project Status: In Progress

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Who Insures a Messenger?

Ten seconds. That’s what Google Flow gave me for Franklin in the garden. He sits down, the lights start to drift in, and then — nothing. Clip’s over. Whatever happens next has to happen in a new generation, with no guarantee the light is the same amber, no guarantee Franklin’s spectacles catch the moonlight the same way twice.

So Much Dancing!

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The call came in the usual way. Someone needed a favor. The cast had a gap, the show was already in motion, and apparently I was the right kind of available. Small part, they said. Nothing too demanding.