012026
One Box, One Journey
A single container followed from the sea to the rail head — vessel, quay crane, yard block, gate, freight station, intermodal. Six stages, no cuts.
1:36 narrated cut · 12 blocks · 1:16 scroll version · 2 sourced figures
022026
One Bean, One Cup
A single coffee cherry followed from a hillside to a cup — picking, fermentation, the drying bed, an ocean, the roast drum, the grinder. Six stages, no cuts.
1:36 narrated cut · 12 blocks · 1:16 scroll version · 1 sourced figure
032026
One Drop, One Toast
A single bead of nectar followed from a flower to a slice of toast — the bee, the flight, the comb, the spinning drum, the sieve, the spoon. Six stages, no cut-aways.
1:36 narrated cut · 12 blocks · 1:16 scroll version · 4 sourced approximations
042026
Two Oceans, One Isthmus
A single container followed across a narrow strip of land between two oceans — the lock, the land-bridge rail, the east port, a free zone, back out to sea. Six stages, no cuts.
1:36 narrated cut · 12 blocks · 1:16 scroll version · 3 sourced claims
052026
One Day, One Terminal
A single container followed through one day at a terminal, from first light to the next — the morning crane, the midday gate, the evening yard, the lamps coming on, the handover. Six stages, no cuts.
1:36 narrated cut · 12 blocks · 1:16 scroll version · 2 sourced claims
062026
One Petal, One Table
A single cut rose followed from a plug tray to a living-room table — the rooted cutting, the metered water, the cool early cut, the cold chain, the florist, the vase. Six stages, no cuts.
1:45 narrated cut · 12 blocks · 1:16 scroll version · 1 sourced figure
072026
The Empty Leg
The half of a container's life nobody films — discharged full, unstuffed, stacked empty, washed and repaired, matched to a new booking, loaded back aboard. Six stages, no cuts.
1:45 narrated cut · 12 blocks · 1:16 scroll version · 2 sourced claims
How these are made
A continuous flight is a claim about the place it flies through: that it is one operation, not six departments. One visible seam and the claim collapses — so the seams are the part that gets the work.
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Seams are one file
Each shot ends on the exact image the next one begins with, because the two shots are anchored to the same still. Nothing is matched by eye.
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Scroll is the playhead
Scroll distance is proportional to running time, so travel reads as fast and arrival reads as a pause. Every stage has to make sense on its own, and backwards.
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One saturated colour
The world is warm stone grey and near-achromatic. Exactly one object carries colour, and it is the one you are following.
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Nothing is named
No real port, operator, shipping line, livery or flag appears in frame. Facility figures go on as overlays in post, so they can be corrected without regenerating a frame.