[
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Night under an abandoned overpass where projection fragments eat the concrete (dark/abstract)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Shifting monochrome films projected across graffiti",
            "Puddles reflecting warped frames",
            "A broken speaker emitting subsonic pulses",
            "Rust flakes drifting in slow motion",
            "A lone folding chair facing an empty screen"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Projector shutters stutter, slicing imagery into hesitant beats",
            "A passerby pauses and becomes a silhouette within the projection",
            "Cut to micro-frames of concrete pores that resolve into faces",
            "Sound design stretches a single cough into a layered chord"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow dolly with jittered frame-rate stutters and overexposed projector inserts",
        "accents": [
            "grain micro-artefact and projector micro-glow haloing edges",
            "wet micro-reflection and concrete micro-pore detail"
        ],
        "mood": "haunting fragmentation",
        "lighting": "cold projector beams with deep encroaching shadow",
        "style": "nonlinear projection-poetry"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Dawn an empty ballroom where echoing footsteps fold into a choreography of lenses (light/elliptical)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Polished floor reflecting skylight slats",
            "Abandoned sheet music fluttering",
            "A single chandelier with missing bulbs",
            "Dust motes arranged into ribbons in a shaft of light",
            "A door left ajar breathing morning air"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Footsteps are layered and multiplied into a phantom chorus",
            "Lens swaps create concentric framing around a single moving dust mote",
            "Cut to reversed footage where exit becomes entrance",
            "A slow push-in matches the tempo of a single heartbeat"
        ],
        "camera": "Circular dolly and slow in-camera zooms with deliberate lens focus shifts",
        "accents": [
            "floor micro-polish and dust micro-mote ribbons",
            "glass micro-prism on chandelier fragments"
        ],
        "mood": "meditative displacement",
        "lighting": "soft high-key with micro-beam volumes",
        "style": "observational formalist cinema"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Midnight riverbank where audio textures build topography: voices form hills, breaths become wind (dark/sound-driven)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Long exposure ripples on water",
            "A collection of found microphones on stakes",
            "Wet reeds bowed like strings",
            "A floating lantern with a tiny speaker inside",
            "Footprints that dissolve into foam"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Field recordings of whispers are mapped spatially across the scene",
            "Breath samples trigger light pulses on the lanterns",
            "Cut to a waveform visual overlay that restructures the landscape",
            "A final negative audio inversion plays as the river laps silence"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow tracking with layered audio-reactive edits and stitched POV fragments",
        "accents": [
            "water micro-caustic shimmer and microphone micro-grain",
            "reed micro-fiber and lantern micro-glow"
        ],
        "mood": "sonic uncanny",
        "lighting": "dim practicals with audio-synced strobing",
        "style": "sound-sculpted experimental film"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Sunlit urban corridor where stickers and signage slowly peel to reveal hidden narratives (light/decollage)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Layers of posters torn to the point of translucency",
            "A chain link covered in handbills",
            "A billboard with successive skin layers",
            "Graffiti tags arranged like a palimpsest",
            "Sun-bleached glue relics holding old flyers"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Time-lapse of poster decay reveals hidden text and ghost images",
            "A hand peels a corner to uncover an earlier layer and reads a name",
            "Cut to overlayed typography animating into sentences",
            "A breeze scatters fragments that land like punctuation"
        ],
        "camera": "Macro time-lapse inserts and static wide establishing frames",
        "accents": [
            "paper micro-delamination and glue micro-residue detail",
            "sun micro-fade on printed pigments"
        ],
        "mood": "archival curiosity",
        "lighting": "clear hard daylight emphasizing texture",
        "style": "decollage documentary-poem"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Night in a labyrinthine archive where frames of family reels loop into unfamiliar genealogies (dark/memory-play)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Shelves stacked high with reels and dusty cans",
            "A projector spitting intermittent frames onto a rolling map",
            "Yellowed handwritten labels in foreign ink",
            "A chair with two shadows under single lamplight",
            "A corridor of sliding ladders"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Frames loop and cross-fade into other family scenes creating alien continuity",
            "An archivist physically intervenes, rearranging reels to test narrative outcomes",
            "Cut to a match cut where a child's laughter becomes a different voice",
            "A final reel burns out leaving an abrupt freeze frame"
        ],
        "camera": "Choreographed crane moves through stacks with jittery hand-camera inserts for flux",
        "accents": [
            "film micro-grain and can micro-rust",
            "lamp micro-halo and paper micro-yellowing"
        ],
        "mood": "nostalgic disorientation",
        "lighting": "low warm practicals punctuated by projector cool glow",
        "style": "memory-assembly experimental"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Dawn field where mirrored panels create a fractured horizon and actors move only when reflection changes (light/psychic)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A horizon broken into segmented mirrors",
            "Footprints leading to panels and stopping",
            "A small tripod anchoring the mirror array",
            "A wind-bent grass pattern repeating like code",
            "A distant car sound that appears distorted"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Actors choreograph movement that is enabled only by reflection alignment",
            "A mirrored sequence reveals actions in alternate temporal order",
            "Cut to a mirrored doorway that inverts left-right choreography",
            "A final collapse of panels recomposes the horizon into a new vista"
        ],
        "camera": "Rigged mirror tracking with syncopated cuts matched to reflection triggers",
        "accents": [
            "glass micro-refraction and grass micro-tilt",
            "mirror micro-edge imperfections"
        ],
        "mood": "eerie recalibration",
        "lighting": "bright fractured daylight with strong highlights",
        "style": "reflection-based experimental staging"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Midnight kitchen where culinary gestures are filmed at hyper-speed and slowed to observe rituals (dark/ritual)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Oil shimmering in a skillet under overhead lamp",
            "Knives arranged like constellation points",
            "A clock running at odd interpolations",
            "Steam traced in slow curl lines",
            "A jar of preserved lemons on a shelf"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A chopping sequence slows to reveal micro-impacts and textures",
            "Heat bloom animated as color shifts across ingredients",
            "Cut to hands that repeat gestures like a ritual chant",
            "A final plate assembled in stop-motion cadence"
        ],
        "camera": "Macro high-speed inserts combined with ultra-slow push-ins",
        "accents": [
            "oil micro-sheen and knife micro-edge reflections",
            "steam micro-vapor threads and ceramic micro-gloss"
        ],
        "mood": "ceremonial attention",
        "lighting": "focused warm kitchen practicals with chilled peripheral tones",
        "style": "culinary micro-ritual film"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Dawn abandoned school where chalk marks grow into animated diagrams mapping internal monologues (light/poetic)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Blackboards layered with partially erased lessons",
            "A spiral of chalk dust on a windowsill",
            "An old school bell with peeling paint",
            "A desk with carved initials and dates",
            "A skylight frosting as day warms"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Chalk lines animate and form diagrams that interpret a student's inner voice",
            "Pencil sketches lift off pages and orbit the room plaintively",
            "Cut to a word slowly written across multiple boards forming a poem",
            "A final hand erases then leaves a single, resolute line"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow tracking over surfaces with animated overlay inserts",
        "accents": [
            "chalk micro-powder and wood micro-patina",
            "paper micro-fiber on notes"
        ],
        "mood": "intimate introspection",
        "lighting": "soft morning glare with high detail on texture",
        "style": "poetic educational experimental"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Night rooftop greenhouse where plants are filmed in extreme macro and reveal cellular choreography (dark/microscopic wonder)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Condensation micro-pearls sliding on glass",
            "A cluster of seedlings with minute hairs",
            "A single lamp casting even growth light",
            "A vapour line drifting into a lens",
            "A thin gauge time-lapse rail"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Macro growth sequences reveal rhythmic cell-like motion",
            "A plant's stomata animate to breath in sync with ambient music",
            "Cut to split screens showing cellular and city-scale parallels",
            "A final bloom resolves as a geometric pattern"
        ],
        "camera": "Extreme macro with motion-controlled time-lapse and layered micro-focus",
        "accents": [
            "cell micro-venation and glass micro-condensation",
            "leaf micro-hair and soil micro-granularity"
        ],
        "mood": "awe at the small",
        "lighting": "controlled soft growth light with cool background shadow",
        "style": "bio-macro experimental cinema"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Dawn industrial estate where mechanical loops are recorded and rhythmically remixed into an urban symphony (light/mechanic)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Conveyor hums forming drone foundations",
            "Clocks in staggered phases mounted on site",
            "Steam valves that hiss in patterned pulses",
            "A chain of pulleys clicking with regularity",
            "A distant factory whistle blowing the hour"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Field recordings are sampled live and looped to create evolving rhythmic textures",
            "Machines are staged as performers responding to audio cues",
            "Cut to choreographed motion of cranes in time with percussive edits",
            "A final collapse of rhythm resolves into ambient silence"
        ],
        "camera": "Rigid industrial wide mixed with spinning rotary inserts synced to sound loops",
        "accents": [
            "metal micro-resonance and chain micro-link detail",
            "steam micro-pulse and clock micro-tick"
        ],
        "mood": "mechanical awe",
        "lighting": "clear early light with strong directional shafts",
        "style": "industrial sound-image experimental"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Midnight corridor of mirrors where the actor moves while the reflection lags, creating a stroboscopic identity split (dark/dislocated)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A corridor lined with tall mirrors",
            "A single ceiling lamp reflected infinitely",
            "Tile floor with wet sheen",
            "A distant door with a sliver of light",
            "A seam in the mirror slightly offset"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Actor's gestures are captured and replayed by reflections with temporal offset",
            "A strobe triggers synthetic freeze-frames that rearrange movement grammar",
            "Cut to close eyes and reflection mismatches forming narrative discrepancy",
            "A final alignment snaps reflections back into sync with a subtle shock"
        ],
        "camera": "Tracking with mirrored multiplane and strobe-synced frame cuts",
        "accents": [
            "glass micro-fracture and light micro-prisming",
            "tile micro-reflection and seam micro-offset"
        ],
        "mood": "alienated introspection",
        "lighting": "cool strobe punctuated by single warm practical",
        "style": "mirror-time experimental"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Sunlit orchard where colors are inverted in-camera and characters act as if in two palettes (light/colour-play)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rows of fruit trees with high-saturation leaves",
            "A picnic cloth patterned in complementary hues",
            "A pair of old bicycles leaning in mirrored color",
            "A ladder resting against a low branch",
            "A crate of fruit with mismatched stickers"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "In-camera color inversion causes choreography to react to two color logic systems",
            "Actors adjust costumes mid-scene to harmonize alternating palettes",
            "Cut to split palette dissolves that create optical counterpoint",
            "A final normalisation returns the orchard to its original tonality"
        ],
        "camera": "In-camera color manipulation with matched cuts and optical dissolves",
        "accents": [
            "fruit micro-skin sheen and cloth micro-fiber in altered hues",
            "leaf micro-edge saturation"
        ],
        "mood": "visually playful",
        "lighting": "bright high-key with deliberate color balances",
        "style": "chromatic formalist experiment"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Dusk telegraph office where code is filmed as kinetic typography and operators become performers (dark/typographic)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rows of tapped telegraph keys and inked logs",
            "A spool of punched paper tape snaking across a table",
            "A small bell chiming reception tones",
            "A ledger of departures and arrivals",
            "A cigarette stub in an ashtray"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Morse clicks are visualized as kinetic typography projected into the space",
            "Operators react to projected words that rearrange their tasks",
            "Cut to overhead patterning of punched tape forming symbolic maps",
            "A final silent arc plays where visual text collapses into a single glyph"
        ],
        "camera": "Static rigs for projection stability mixed with operator close-in reactions",
        "accents": [
            "paper micro-perforation and key micro-polish",
            "ink micro-stroke and tape micro-brittle edge"
        ],
        "mood": "conceptual resonance",
        "lighting": "low practicals with projection contrast",
        "style": "typographic cine-poem"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Midnight laundromat where film emulsion is manually scratched to create a rhythmic, hand-made soundtrack (dark/tactile)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rows of metal drums reflecting street lights",
            "Scratched film negative samples pinned on a board",
            "A glass jar of developer marked in chalk",
            "A faucet dripping in regular intervals",
            "A wooden stool with paint marks"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Hand-scratching emulsion produces percussive sounds synced to image textures",
            "Experimental playback alters pitch and creates a new score",
            "Cut to the tactile motion of the artist's knife crossing celluloid",
            "A final run-through plays the scratched reel as a mechanical drum"
        ],
        "camera": "Macro inserts on emulsion surface and hand motion, coupled with sync audio capture",
        "accents": [
            "emulsion micro-scratch and developer micro-smear detail",
            "metal micro-reflection on drum surfaces"
        ],
        "mood": "craft-driven intensity",
        "lighting": "narrow cool practicals with accented highlights",
        "style": "hand-made cine-sonic experiment"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Sunlit commuter train where frame-rate shifts render commuters into stop-motion citizens (light/tempo-play)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rows of seats and swinging handles",
            "Advertising panels becoming rhythmic patterns",
            "A timetable poster with shifting times",
            "A coffee cup left in a tray",
            "A flickering carriage display"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Intercut frame-rate drops create staccato movement among travelers",
            "A single gesture repeated across riders becomes motif",
            "Cut to rhythmic match-cuts of train doors opening and closing in stop-motion",
            "A final fluid speed returns normalcy with an uncanny aftertaste"
        ],
        "camera": "Variable frame-rate shooting with matched edit tempo",
        "accents": [
            "plastic micro-grain on handles and seat micro-fabric",
            "display micro-flicker and cup micro-drip"
        ],
        "mood": "kinetic estrangement",
        "lighting": "balanced daylight through carriage windows",
        "style": "temporal manipulation experimental"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Dawn abandoned cinema where film leaders and cue marks form a choreography of absent viewers (light/haunting)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rows of tattered seats and faded programs",
            "A projection booth with silent mechanisms",
            "A reel of leader tape feeding into nothing",
            "A crumb-filled aisle with shoe impressions",
            "A marquee bulb burned out"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Leader tapes unravel and form rhythmic patterns across the floor",
            "Cue marks animate visually into punctuation that frames imagined frames",
            "Cut to a choreography of empty seats that sway like a crowd in memory",
            "A final leader burns out into blankness"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow paced crane across auditorium with tactile inserts on film leader",
        "accents": [
            "film micro-leader texture and seat micro-fabric wear",
            "bulb micro-fade and dust micro-particles"
        ],
        "mood": "nostalgic emptiness",
        "lighting": "soft pre-dawn with projection booth cool glow",
        "style": "memory-of-cinema experimental"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Midnight botanical lab where luminescent algae are filmed in extreme long exposure to paint the dark (dark/ambient)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Petri dishes glowing faintly in racks",
            "A pipette tracing fluid arcs",
            "A time-lapse rail registering slow blooms",
            "A black drape absorbing stray light",
            "A notebook of spectral readings"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Long exposures record algae trails that become painterly ribbons",
            "Sound design stretches bubbling into harmonic drones",
            "Cut to split tonal layers where spectral readings map to color shifts",
            "A final composite reveals a living constellatory pattern"
        ],
        "camera": "Extended long-exposure macro combined with layered compositing",
        "accents": [
            "algae micro-biolume and glass micro-condensation",
            "pipette micro-droplet clarity"
        ],
        "mood": "hypnotic wonder",
        "lighting": "internal bioluminescent glow with deep surrounding black",
        "style": "bio-light experimental imagery"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Dawn city underpass where commuters' shadows splice into a single flowing organism (light/collective)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Pillars with layered posters and scrawl",
            "A bike chained to a support covered in stickers",
            "Morning commuters with initial steam breath",
            "A distant bus exhaling condensation",
            "A puddle doubling the pillar geometry"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Shadows merge in time-lapse into a single animated ribbon weaving among pillars",
            "Commuters perform micro-actions that the shadow-organism replays with offset timing",
            "Cut to a synchronized step sequence produced purely by shadow choreography",
            "The organism dissolves as sunlight clears the underpass"
        ],
        "camera": "Low-angle panoramic with shadow-focused framing and rhythmic jump cuts",
        "accents": [
            "concrete micro-grit and shadow micro-edge softening",
            "sticker micro-print and bike micro-chain detail"
        ],
        "mood": "communal surreal",
        "lighting": "cool early morning with contrasty shadow",
        "style": "collective shadow experimental"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Experimental Cinema",
        "scene": "Midnight archive of forgotten audio where spectrograms are projected and dancers interpret frequency shapes (dark/abstract-sound)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Stacks of lacquered discs and tape reels",
            "A projector rendering spectrograms onto a smoke wall",
            "A dancer with audio-reactive costume",
            "A broken metronome ticking unevenly",
            "A console with knobs and patch bays"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Spectrograms morph and dancers trace their contours physically",
            "Audio artifacts are sampled and re-projected to reshape choreography",
            "Cut to a tactile exchange between musician hands and dancer limbs",
            "A final blackout leaves only residual reverberation"
        ],
        "camera": "Sonic-synced camera moves with close inserts on audio equipment and dancer contact points",
        "accents": [
            "spectrogram micro-gradient and tape micro-hiss texture",
            "costume micro-led response and knob micro-knurl detail"
        ],
        "mood": "aural embodiment",
        "lighting": "projector-driven color against night",
        "style": "sonic-visual performance film"
    }
]