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SHORT · 10 MIN MMXXI DIGITAL · 2.39 : 1
Written / Directed
C. RAMIREZ
Status
RELEASED · 2021
Aspect
2.39 : 1
Setting
BOGOTÁ · CO
Genre
SF · THRILLER
▮ FILE PRD-001 · INFINITE REGRESS · 2ND DRAFT · 07.03.2021

INFINITE
REGRESS.

A senior operator at a Colombian R&D firm is outfitted with a process that lets her consciousness exist across servers, iterating every possible reality of a single operation. She is sent into Bogotá's nightlife to find a mole. Time, for her, no longer applies.

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§ 01 Synopsis. runtime 10 min · 2nd draft 07.03.2021

Camila wakes in a bedroom in Bogotá. The voice in her ear tells her today will be the most important day of her life. It has said this before.

Her mind exists across servers in undisclosed locations, transmitted into her body through technology she will never know and will kill to defend. She has access to the infinite. She will not know death in the regress.

Camila is a senior operator at Lutece, a Colombian R&D firm whose tech sits at the centre of an escalating war between corporations, intelligence services, and private military groups. She has been outfitted with her company's most classified asset: a process the script names the Infinite Regress. It assesses every logical possibility within a given space and extracts the most probable — and the most dangerous — realities. Time, for her, no longer applies.

Across one operation she is sent to find a mole at the top of R&D. She moves through the High Charity bar in Bogotá, the crime scene of her mentor's murder, the audit floor of Lutece HQ, and finally a corporate blacksite whose lab no one will re-enter. Each time she dies, the regress winds the moment back. Each time she lives, she carries less of herself across.

Between the movements, she remembers Alma — the painter, the violinist, the woman who did not love her. The interludes are the only place time still moves forward, and only because Camila is no longer in them.

§ 02 Structure. overture + 4 movements + 4 interludes

The film is built as a symphony of recursions. Four movements carry the operation forward. Four interludes — each titled after a videogame — stop time and return to Alma. The videogame motif is one of three naming systems running through the script.

SYSTEM 01 Cyberpunk · Gibson Wintermute wristband. Kalinatek PMC. Lutece.
SYSTEM 02 Kojima · codec voice Codename Pliskin. Codename Condor. The Voice (V.O.).
SYSTEM 03 Videogame · chapter shells High Charity. Camila Core. Interludes named for games.
  1. § 00
    ▮ OVERTURE

    The Infinite Regress Overture.

    Three temporal streams of the same morning. Camila wakes, dies, wakes again. Julieta hands her a license to kill. The Voice issues the brief: trust no one, find the mole.

    CAMILA'S BEDROOM → CAMILA CORE
  2. § I
    ▮ MOVEMENT 01

    Split Infinity.

    A sit-down at the High Charity bar with Vadam Corp and Kalinatek brass. Guns assembled in the bathroom from hollowed-out fruit and disassembled fixtures. Ines Arias is shot at dinner. The extraction team is killed before it reaches them.

    HIGH CHARITY · BOGOTÁ
  3. ·
    ▮ INTERLUDE · I

    Death Stranding.

    Alma paints a quasar onto a canvas in front of the Colombian country house. Camila watches and cannot move.

    COLOMBIAN COUNTRY HOUSE
  4. § II
    ▮ MOVEMENT 02

    Life After Death.

    Julieta is murdered inside the most secure house in Colombia. INTERPOL, the CIA, the Colombian National Police and Camila's own corp surround the scene. A scientist named Mateo is broken open. Victoria shoots him in the chair.

    MODERNIST COLOMBIAN HOUSE · NIGHT
  5. ·
    ▮ INTERLUDE · II

    The Demon Souls.

    Alma flinches away from a kiss. The book in the candlelight. A throne of flowers. She doesn't love you.

    ALMA'S HOUSE
  6. § III
    ▮ MOVEMENT 03

    Closer to God.

    Victoria takes over internal affairs and begins an audit of R&D. Scientists are tied to chairs. Camila is suspended, then returns through a side door with a keycard that should not exist. She kills Victoria in Julieta's office under emergency red light.

    LUTECE HQ · R&D FLOOR
  7. ·
    ▮ INTERLUDE · III

    The Ocarina of Time.

    Alma and Camila by a lake in the mountains. "Point to something that no one can see but you."

    COLOMBIAN COUNTRYSIDE
  8. ·
    ▮ INTERLUDE · IV

    Red Dead Redemption.

    Alma plays the violin in front of a black-and-gold backdrop. Camila's voice-over says everything it has not said.

    ALMA'S HOUSE
  9. § IV
    ▮ MOVEMENT 04 · FINAL

    Fear of God.

    A corporate blacksite. A yellow pulsating corridor. The Wintermute wristband strapped on, the pistol set down. The Voice answers Camila's questions: this concept no longer applies. The cube multiplies. The regress is infinite.

    CORPORATE BLACKSITE · R&D LAB
§ 03 Cast. principals · in order of appearance
PRINCIPAL · 01
Lead Salomé Cárdenas as Camila · Lutece operator
PRINCIPAL · 02
Supporting Marisa Lozano as Julieta · head of internal affairs
PRINCIPAL · 03
Supporting Daniela Pinilla as Victoria · operator, then antagonist
FEATURED · 04
Featured Inés Echeverría as Alma · the painter
§ 04 Crew. heads of department · Schema Cambridge era
Written / Directed byChristian Ramirez
Produced bySchema Cambridge
EditorC. Ramirez
§ 05 Stills. selected frames · schema cambridge · 2021
▮ STILL 01 · CAMILA'S BEDROOM · BOGOTÁ · 0617
PR-001 · STL · 0009
▮ STILL 02 · CAMILA CORE · ILLUMINATED CUBE
PR-001 · STL · 0027
▮ STILL 03 · HIGH CHARITY · RED TUBES
PR-001 · STL · 0044
▮ STILL 04 · SAFE ROOM CORRIDOR · RED
PR-001 · STL · 0061
▮ STILL 05 · ALMA · EASEL · COUNTRY HOUSE
PR-001 · STL · 0088
§ 06 Lore Bible. world & cosmology · v2.1 · carries into PRD-002
▮ LORE-001 · COSMOLOGY · v2.1 · CANONICAL

The Infinite Regress.

The Infinite Regress is the Voice's name for a process — not a place and not a piece of hardware, although both are involved. A subject's consciousness is held across servers in undisclosed locations and transmitted back into their body through tech they will never see and will kill to defend. Inside the regress, the system assesses every logical possibility within a given space, extracts the most probable reality and the most dangerous ones, and intervenes.

"Your mind exists across servers in several undisclosed locations. You have access to the infinite. You will not know death in the Infinite Regress." — The Voice, overture.

For Camila, the regress manifests as repeated mornings, as second-chance gunfights, as conversations she will have a third time. The cost of the process is not energy. It is the self. Each iteration that succeeds carries less of her across. The Voice never tells her this. By the end of the film, the Voice and Camila speak in a single voice.

The illuminated cube of the Camila Core is the local representation of one subject's process. The final shot of the film pulls back from her cube to reveal there are many more cubes in the server room. The film does not say how many. The Voice says only: an infinite regress.

§ 07 Themes & Motifs. writer/director analysis · internal
01

Life without time.

The Voice's opening promise. The film treats the disappearance of linear time as a corporate productivity gain — not a horror, not a wonder, just the next product. The horror is in what the subject has to give up to use it.

02

Loneliness as exploit.

Mateo gives up R&D under interrogation because he was in love with a deep-cover INTERPOL agent. Ana Gonzalez says it aloud: you must be so alone. Corporate isolation is the attack surface the rest of the world is reading from.

03

The interlude as the only real time.

Each of the four interludes is named for a videogame. They are the only sequences where time moves forward and Camila is not in them. The interludes are how the film admits the regress has already happened.

§ 08 Process. development → release · cambridge era
2020
First treatment
The Voice already speaks in the opening line.
2021.03
Draft 1
Four movements. Interludes still numbered.
2021.07
Draft 2
07.03.2021. Interludes get game titles. Schema Cambridge files it.
2021
Short cut decided
Feature shelved. A short proof-of-concept extracted from the script.
2021
Principal photography
Bogotá-set short, produced under Schema Cambridge.
2021
Released as a short
10-min proof-of-concept. Feature screenplay remains unproduced, open for production.
2026
Indexed by SCHEMA
Full script and production files ingested. Lore carries into PRD-002.
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Everything we know
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The agent has access to the 2nd-draft screenplay, the short-cut shooting script, the production diary, and the full lore bible. Ask it about the Voice, the Camila Core, why the interludes are named after videogames, or how the world connects to How the West Was Won.

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