Moon in Scorpio

a shadow initiation

ARCHIVE: Transmission sealed. Registered with the Library of Congress.

🔒 Registered Work – U.S. Copyright Office

Title: Thoth
Case #: 1-14968497601
Type: Work of the Visual Arts
Author: Ryan Chang
📁 Original visual artwork, narrative structure, editing, and remix composition.
Date Submitted: July 27, 2025
🜂 Archived in the Library of Congress. Transmission sealed.

Shot entirely on the 53rd anniversary of Yukio Mishima’s suicide, Moon in Scorpio was filmed in a microcinema immediately following a screening of Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.

The work functions as a ritual of reckoning—an exploration of the moment when parts of the self must symbolically die in order for something true to emerge.

This is not a film about closure.
It is a meditation on the sacred rupture:
a descent into the pain of shedding what no longer serves, and the flicker of power that appears in its place.

Thoth

an Origin Wound

a film for your nervous system

PERFECT DRUG — Opens the initial thread of artifice and digitality as channels of intimacy hinted at in Kubrick’s A.I. Viewed through the lens of pornography as both artificial proxy and nervous-system imprint, it marks the first pulse in a larger journey toward reclaiming intimacy from fear and distortion — a journey that expands fully in Pisces Rising.

year Zero — The first pulse of the Gemini film Studios mythos.

An unflinching exploration of feminine distortion through pornography and artifice, Perfect Drug confronts the viewer with the seductive unreality of the image. Created with no prior filmmaking experience, it was shot AND edited entirely by Ryan — the earliest attempt to encode personal myth into moving image.

Raw, unresolved, and already dangerous, it stands as both a relic of its time and a prophecy of the cinema to come. The seed from which Moon in Scorpio, Thoth, and Pisces Rising would grow.

Composed from thousands of still photographs running at 60 frames per second, Thoth unfolds like a digital ritual—part Takashi Ito, part synthetic trance.
Created in close collaboration with Spencer, who served as a kind of intuitive mirror—tuning the signal, sharpening the frequency.
The film explores our relationship to the artificial: 
Is this memory or machine? Illusion or invocation? 
Thoth doesn’t explain.
 It’s a film for your nervous system.

the only U.S. winner at the 2025 International Avant-Garde Awards (Best Experimental Short & Best Visual Effects).

The perfect drug

Upcoming Works in Progress

BITCHES GO ROUND — ROOT–CROWN SYNC TEST PATTERN

MK Killer

BlitZ

pisces Rising

Cmyk - breakaway Feminine/Higher Self * Sync Test Pattern

🜁 SEE THE PATTERNS. FIND THE CODES.
Sidestep the little bits of history repeating.

🔒 Registered Work – U.S. Copyright Office
Title: Moon in Scorpio
Case #: 1-14968777025
Type: Work of the Visual Arts
Author: Ryan Chang
📁 Montage film exploring self-destruction, erotic collapse, and media distortion. Includes footage sourced from Playboy, CBS News, stock assets, and AI-processed sequences.
Date Submitted: July 27, 2025
🜂 Expression locked. Energetic authority reclaimed. Loop ends here.

slipstream drifter

SOVEREIGN

12 films. first cycle complete.

Lets get loud

Libra : Respect in diamonds

a REclamation

🔒 Registered Work – U.S. Copyright Office

Title: Libra: Respect in Diamonds
Case #: 1-14968776879
Type: Work of the Visual Arts
Author: Ryan Chang
📁 Filmed on-location at the Warburg and private collections. Features unlicensed use of Walk It Talk It as an intentional act of sacred disruption.
Date Submitted: July 27, 2025
🜁 Coded for balance. Broadcast locked. Distortion bounces.

A meditation on beauty, balance, and the unspoken codes between symbols and power.
Shot through the lens of the Libra archetype, Respect in Diamonds weaves tarot, fashion, and quiet rebellion into a soft but sovereign visual transmission.

A love letter to elegance, justice, and the shimmer of meaning beneath surface shine.

Best Director, Color Grade and Cinematography

🜁 NORTH (Air: Clarity, Crown)

Film: “Pisces Rising”
Code: Mythic awakening, ritual transmission, frequency weapon.
Design: Stark. Cold. Sacred. White/blue.
Experience: Time stops. Breath slows. You forget who you were.

🜃 SOUTH (Earth: Flesh, Root)

Film: “Moon in Scorpio”
Code: Addiction, shadow loops, pornographic collapse.
Design: Dirty, dark, velvety. Flesh tones.
Experience: Feels like touching trauma in an empty motel room.

🜂 EAST (Fire: Initiation, Will)

Film: “Bitches Go Round”

CODE: Erotic polarity, root-to-crown circuit repair, psycho rave altar.

LOOP: Paul Sharits N:O:T:H:I:N:G / T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G — Root–Crown Corridor Seal.

MIRROR: Shirley Clarke’s Bridges Go Round wrapped color and rhythm around masculine architecture. Bitches Go Round inscribes archetypal structure into the feminine body itself — a continuation of Thoth’s mythic precision, but rendered as structural, sensual, and psychic rave-geometry for 21st-century cinema.

AESTHETIC: Gwen Stefani × VHS mascara × Paul Sharits flicker excess × Lana Del Rey’s A&W. Sacred rave altar dressed in pop-trash lip gloss.

COLOR: Strobe, CMYK explosions, glitter cuts.
CORE WEAPON: Root-Crown sync.
LINE: “Take a chance, you stupid hoe.”

TAGLINE: First they went wild… now they go ROUND.

🜄 WEST (Water: Feeling, Mirror)

Film: “Thoth”
Code: Symbolic decoding, tarot recursion, soft 5D return.
Design: Dreamlike, slow, sacred. Golds and sapphires.
Experience: Like if Carl Jung fell in love in a neon temple.

⟁ North

Film: “Blitz”

Code: Absurd devotion, masculine polarity, tether-cutting ritual.

Loop: Where are the tethers that keep you from your mission? The game doesn’t matter — the discipline does.

mirRor: If Tár was collapse by control, Blitz is reclamation through play. A ridiculous pursuit reframed as sacred training.

Design: Neon sweat, locker-room haze, sovereign feral glow.
Experience: Masculine crisis made myth — comedy and intensity fused into ritual endurance.

twin polarity

▽ South

Film: “sovereign"

Code: A look becomes a rumor. A rumor becomes a rule. She chooses herself.

Plot: In an ordinary workplace, one woman’s quiet joy sparks an institutional machine. What begins as a laugh in the hallway becomes whispers, rules, and shame. Sovereign is a chamber piece of subtle betrayals and quiet defiance — a stark confrontation between sovereignty and collapse.

Mirror: To Persona, but inverted: not fusion, but separation. Not loss of self, but the dangerous act of claiming it.

  • Pisces Rising
    ✅ Scripted
    ✅ Shot mapped
    ✅ Unreal mapped
    ✅ Color grade mapped
    ✅ Kubrick-tier composition
    🎯 Status: Awaiting greenlight

  • Bitches Go Round
    ✅ Fully mapped
    ✅ Casting underway
    🎯 Status: Next up

  • CMYK x Breakaway
    ✅ Mapped
    🔄 Final form to be discovered on set
    🎯 Status: Energetically primed

  • MK Killer
    🔴 In the Vault
    🟡 Partially Scripted
    🟢 Status: Slated Late (In Development)

  • BLITZ
    🟠 Fully Mapped — Quick Shoot (but not cheap)
    🟡 Casting Pending
    🟢 Status: Mid-Slate (Momentum Building)

    SLIPSTREAM DRIFTER
    ✅ Fully mythically & structurally mapped
    ⚠️ Requires largest crew + precision stunt coordination
    📍 Status: Long-horizon slate (furthest-out, epic corridor project)

  • SOVEREIGN

    • MAPPED (chamber-piece structure, quietly locked)

      🟦 simple + softer register

      ♀ STATUS: further-down-the-road (slow-burn slate)

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© 2025 Gemini Studios LLC. All Rights Reserved.

▲ North — history repeating

Tagline: The loop is the cure.

Theme: Vertov mirror, personal myth into collective myth, surveillance undone.

Aesthetic: Duran Duran × Vertov × Gemini Slipstream.

Core Weapon: Pattern mirror.

Line: “History doesn’t repeat. It integrates.”

▼ South — MK KILLER

Tagline: The simulation broke containment.
Theme: Control, seduction, conspiracy interface
Aesthetic: Gateway tapes × Killer7 × Demonlover

Brainwashing, wetware erotics, psychic assassin psychosis
Color: Neon green + infrared blush
Core Weapon: Memory fragmentation
Line: “You don’t wake up. You just get reassigned.”

LOOP: JAPANESE NEW WAVE INTEGRATION

▶ East — CMYK x breakaway

TAGLINE: Test pattern never ends.
THEME: Color–space collapse, erotic rhythm, temporal endurance.
AESTHETIC: Kon Ichikawa (Tokyo Olympiad) × Paul Sharits (structure, not surface) × Ito in-camera collapse
Design: Strobe, CMYK explosions, flicker cuts.
Experience: Feels like if Maya Deren dropped acid with Daft Punk.

DESCRIPTION:
CMYK rebuilds Bruce Conner’s Breakaway as a stroboscopic endurance test. Not spectacle, but geometry in motion: the body as metronome, color as architecture, rhythm as sovereign container. Where Ichikawa sculpted the raw strength of Olympic athletes into visual symphony, CMYK fractures that endurance into flicker-space collapse — cyan, magenta, yellow, black.

COLOR: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black.
CORE WEAPON: Sync strobe.
LINE: “The loop doesn’t break — it accelerates.”
LOOP: Endurance becomes trance — architecture becomes collapse.

◀ West — Slipstream Drifter

(Yes—this time, it also frames itself)
Tagline: The field moves when you stop chasing it.
Theme: Non-linear navigation, post-ego infiltration
Aesthetic: Vapor noir × anime desert × lucid dreamer toolkit

Color: Midnight chrome
Core Weapon: Mythic stillness
Line: “The Operator doesn’t chase. He tunes.”

LOOP: JOHN BOORMAN’S MYTH CYCLE (EXCALIBUR, POINT BLANK, ZARDOZ)

Mirror:The Raid / Dredd — tower action finds mythic structure.

Thesis: Maya Deren’s Meditation on Violence — physicality becomes narrative. Action choreography is not spectacle but story itself, each strike inscribing meaning. Where Maya Deren meditated on movement as ritual, Slipstream Drifter extends that line: violence as myth, structure, and psychic architecture for the 21st century.