Skywhale Airways · Press Kit

I AM NOMAD

a psychedelic airport for time travelers

A surreal 53-second retro airport short where fish keep schedules, luggage remembers, and every terminal belongs to a different decade.

Programmer Snapshot

Runtime: 53.5s festival cut (I AM NOMAD); 53s original web cut
Format: 16:9 1080p H.264/AAC MP4
Challenge: AI Film Club · Retro Challenge · June 2026
Created by: Kris Krug & Suzy Easton
Music: whale sky god
Public site: skywhaleairways.com

Watch festival cut Original 2026 web cut (archive) Open the airport View stills

I AM NOMAD key art with the Time Traveller at Gate infinity

Artistic Thesis

The film treats travel as a way of surviving time: one person moving calmly through a terminal where memory, identity, and decades all behave like weather. The AI process is visible in the texture, but the piece is built around edit rhythm, recurring images, and the Time Traveller's quiet refusal to be pinned to one year.

Synopsis

A lone Time Traveller enters Skywhale Airways, an airport for lost decades. Fish drift through the terminals like aircraft, clocks refuse ordinary time, and the runway opens like a memory. By the end of the journey, she arrives with one bag, one body, and tomorrow's yesterday.

Film Details

Title: I AM NOMAD · a psychedelic airport for time travelers
Brand: Skywhale Airways
Runtime: 53.5 seconds, festival cut (v9, 4K)
Web cut: 53 seconds, hosted on YouTube (Unlisted) at youtu.be/nvKMmuzQNDs
Challenge: AI Film Club · Retro Challenge · June 2026
Format: 16:9 · 1920x1080 · 24fps · H.264/AAC MP4
Created by: Kris Krug & Suzy Easton
Music: whale sky god
Public site: skywhaleairways.com

Watch festival cut Original 2026 web cut (archive) Read the colophon Open the airport

Stills

Golden skywhale airport still — The Skywhale Airport

Duplicate selves waiting room still — Gate Delay / Duplicate Selves

Zero-gravity transfer still — Zero-Gravity Transfer

Golden fish flight still — Golden Fish Flight

Cloud orchard layover still — Cloud-Orchard Layover

Pink rotunda arrival still — Pink Rotunda Arrival

Production Notes

The stills were generated in Midjourney and curated into ten gouache keyframes. The animation was generated scene by scene with Veo 3.1, then assembled to the spoken-word lounge track whale sky god with crisp title and credits cards for the festival cut. The tools act like cameras, paintboxes, and edit instruments; the authorship is in the image selection, sequence, timing, sound, copy, and final site direction. The site itself is a hand-built Vite / Three.js microsite with a scroll-driven WebGL journey, interactive boarding pass, Decade Weather card, film embed, and Skywhale Airways Duty-Free concept shop.

Rights / Clearance

The submitted MP4s, stills, poster art, and press materials are treated as Skywhale Airways project deliverables by Kris Krug and Suzy Easton. No outside stock footage is intentionally included. Music use is tied to the project track whale sky god; re-check paperwork before broadcast, paid distribution, or any festival that requires formal clearance documents.