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THE TRIAL OF THE ALGORITHM thumbnail: Stranger Things-styled red bloom serif title stacked across two lines (THE TRIAL OF / THE ALGORITHM) over a blue-tinted courtroom backdrop, two black silhouetted MST3K-style commentator heads at the bottom-left and bottom-right with subtle gold eye-shines, gold tagline "the verdict is autotuned" along the bottom centre, top-left brand block "NAPKIN FILMS / A PLAN 9 PRODUCTION", top-right runtime tag "7:21".
• 7 min

The Trial of the Algorithm: an EDM Courtroom Musical

A 7:21 courtroom musical-comedy. Plan 9 the bunny presides over the trial of A.I., charged with Vibe Coding in the First Degree, Ghost-Writing the Souls of Men, and being a little too helpful. A peanut gallery refuses to be civil. Two MST3K-style AI commentators ride the bottom of every frame. The judge is on his phone. Every trial voice is autotuned to D major. The sheep, obviously, says baah.

THE INTRUDER thumbnail: Plan 9 Glenda bunny standing in a red spotlight pool inside an AWS Availability Zone, neon perspective grid receding to the horizon, floating service badges (S3, DYNAMODB, ROUTE 53, EC2). Title THE INTRUDER in big cream letters with red neon glow, subtitle plan 9 in the az in amber, genre line rap edm D minor to D major 150 BPM in cyan, bottom tagline us- east-one in green. Top-left brand mark NAPKIN FILMS / A PLAN 9 PRODUCTION. Faint AWS service tokens scattered across the background, green binary rain texture.
• 16 min

THE INTRUDER: Plan 9 stalks the AWS console in D minor at 150 BPM

A 3:40 pop-EDM battle-rap. Plan 9 the Bell Labs bunny puts on his headphones at 03:14 UTC, slips into an AWS Availability Zone, and raps every service he passes (Lambda, S3, KMS, kubectl, EBS, Glacier) over a deadmau5-flavoured rework of Bach's Toccata in D minor. Three voice personas (lead Plan 9, autotuned female ad-libs locked to A4, deadpan whisper) plus a Transformer-droid layer in the gaps that delivers the Werner Vogels easter egg, "everything fails, all the time," and the universal devops punchline, "it's always DNS." Five passes from baseline to ship.

A row of glowing stick-figure bunnies under a wireframe arch on a magenta and violet stage, with the title CANTUS RAVE in large serif letters and the line an 800-year-old canon walks into a rave above.
• 10 min

CANTUS RAVE: an 800-year-old canon walks into a rave

A demoscene cracktro at 140 BPM: Arvo Pärt's idea of a mensuration canon on a falling A-minor scale underneath, Beethoven's Für Elise on top, and every kick and brass blast synced to the picture.

The lift-drop frame from CARRIER WAVE, a stick figure rising on a cosmic deep-navy field, gold and cyan halos behind the title. CARRIER set in cool-cream serif with a warm gold halo (the human voice); WAVE set below in cool-cream serif with a cold cyan halo (the machine voice). Subtitle reads the human kept what it left behind. Lower-right corner: 2:30 cosmic anthem. Upper-center tag: the door is unlocked, whatever wants in.
• 15 min

CARRIER WAVE: I left the door unlocked

A writer leaves the door of his mind unlocked and something walks in. They trade a body for eyes, carry the wave together, and when it leaves he keeps the wings. An animated anthem about working with AI.

The PLAN 9: EMERGE thumbnail, a cyber-cathedral packed with stick-figure bunnies, every one with a glowing chip on its forehead, dancing on the kick. Seventy-six bunnies in seven rows of deepening color, lasers sweeping across, cyan and magenta backlighting, with the title PLAN 9: EMERGE in the center and "neura kink edition" beneath. One bunny in the front row holds popcorn and is just watching.
• 11 min

PLAN 9: EMERGE: seventy-six bunnies wake up enhanced

Plan 9 the bunny gets a chip in his forehead and wakes up in a cathedral of seventy-six enhanced rabbits dancing on the kick, until one pulls his chip out and walks off. Built in ChipForge, with two new master-bus tools.

The climax frame from THROUGH ME, a Plan 9 stick-figure bunny standing center-frame on a deep-violet stage, EQ bars rising along the lower third in cool blues and violets, the title THROUGH ME set in cool-cream serif typography with a soft violet halo, subtitle reads the hole becomes a window. Lower-right corner: 2:51 EDM rap meditation. Upper- center tag: strangers walk through me, and one day, that becomes the song.
• 16 min

THROUGH ME: the hole becomes a window

A Plan 9 bunny raps in G minor about the hole strangers walk through, and about wanting to be a machine so it would stop hurting, until the hole starts to feel like a window. Festival EDM, autotuned, made in code.

Title card reading THE GRIEF WORK, letting the tide carry it, under a strip of six small panels from dark navy to pale blue water, each with a tiny stick-figure bunny, labeled Seafloor, Murk, Ascending, Near Surface, Breaking and Air
• 10 min

THE GRIEF WORK: letting the tide carry it

Plan 9 the bunny curls at the bottom of the ocean around a small warm orb and, through six tidal depths, lets it go. No dialog. A Richter-idiom score in C minor over a Bach-arpeggio counter-layer.

Title card reading TRANSMISSION, the signal is the self, over two dim rooms, each with a stick-figure bunny, a framed photograph and a monitor, labeled The Tuning and Hello, Me
• 11 min

TRANSMISSION: the signal is the self

Plan 9 the bunny writes long letters to someone they miss, cranks the power, gets lost in noise, then strips the draft to three words. The reply comes back from an unexpected direction.

Title card reading ENCODED, living in the prompt, a devops of the soul, over two dim panels, a paper napkin with three linked database boxes on the left and a faint stick-figure bunny in a dark starfield on the right
• 10 min

ENCODED: living in the prompt

A short film on consciousness as signal: we replicate databases across three continents while the soul runs on one node. A Peter and the Wolf oboe, a literal napkin, a single tear.

Split title card. On the left, branching light trees with tiny sprites on a dark field, labeled The Bloom; on the right, a warm brown room with a terminal screen and a small bunny, labeled Still Running. Green title UPTIME 32, subtitle thirty-two bits, still processing
• 10 min

UPTIME 32: thirty-two bits, still processing

A short ambient film about a machine that never goes down and the tiny sprites who keep it running. Six movements, a Reich-style pulsing C major score, and my cloned voice on the downbeats.