WHEN AMERICA IS GREAT...AGAIN: THE ORIGIN OF MIRRORED AMERICA
When every person of color and every contribution they made is erased from the United States, one suburban family watches the perfect America they took for granted disappear piece by piece.
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Synopsis and Project Overview
Warning: This is NOT a Movie, it is a Mirror. When America Is Great Again is a work of speculative fiction created using AI generated imagery and cinematic AI video tools. All characters, families, events, and scenarios depicted are entirely fictional and are not intended to represent any real individuals or specific incidents. The historical inventors and contributions referenced throughout this film are real. AI image and video generation tools were used as creative instruments under the full artistic direction of the filmmaker. On an ordinary Tuesday morning in an ordinary American suburb, a white family wakes up to a world that functions perfectly. The lawns are emerald. The breakfast is hot. The lights are on. The traffic moves. They have never once asked why. Over the course of a single day, a federal breaking news alert changes everything. A nationwide ICE operation is underway. Every person of color is being deported. The administration has also decreed that every invention, every contribution, and every fingerprint left on American life by people of color will be treated as though it never existed. What follows is not fiction. It is history running in reverse. The traffic lights vanish. The lights go dark. The heat stops. The GPS goes blank. The food disappears from the shelves. The music goes silent. The houses come apart where labor built them. The grass dies where hands tended it. The computers go grey where people of color engineered and designed them. The cars stall where Indigenous inventors made them run. The film ends where it began. An aerial shot of the same perfect cul de sac. The same geometry. But the lawns are dirt. The houses are…
Cast and Credits
Created by Jai Harris. A Free Royalty Studios production. Additional cast and credits are available with the project materials.
Awards and Recognition
The conceptual origin of the Mirrored America Universe · Completed AI assisted short film
Project Details
Runtime: 6:31
Format: Origin Short Film
Genre: Speculative Social Thriller · Political Satire · Alternate History · Experimental AI Cinema
Rating: PG 13