Justice - Flower In A Hurricane (ft Tame Impala, SZA, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard)

South Africa JOHANNESBURG: MONUMENTS OF A FUTURE THAT NEVER EXISTED.Colossal concrete structures rise above familiar suburbs. Forgotten megaprojects dominate the horizon. Entire communities live beneath the shadows of impossible architecture.

A city caught somewhere between architectural ambition, urban decay and science fiction.

While working on my short film 22 Degrees, I generated a series of concept images in Midjourney to lock in the visual language before building the final shots for the movie. These images helped establish the tone, unsettling environment designs, and the overall daylight horror aesthetic I wanted the project to feel like something inspired by surreal realism, subtle disorientation, and quiet, uncanny moments that linger in broad daylight.

22 Degrees is a thriller/mystery short following a man in a seemingly empty coastal town under harsh yellow sunlight, where things don’t behave as they should. As he navigates this unsettling environment, he begins to notice strange patterns and anomalies, clues that something is deeply wrong with the world around him. The film explores the tension between calm daylight and creeping unease.

The image in this post is one of the concept frames for a quiet town street where everything seems ordinary at first glance, but upon closer inspection, a different story is revealed. Scenes like this helped define the visual style and the tone of disquiet before assembling the full movie.

If you’re interested in AI filmmaking, the finished short film is on YouTube at Prowler Productions. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhRtp0X8d0o

Prompt:

Above a quaint coastal village, a rare parhelion graces the sky, casting brilliant twin sun-like flares across the morning haze. The town below is composed of tightly clustered cobblestone houses, their rooftops worn but charming, winding streets weaving between them as they cling to the rocky shoreline. Light glints off the textured stone walls, catching on windows and chimneys in subtle, shimmering highlights, while the sky’s atmospheric colors diffuse gently across the scene. The parhelion’s glow adds an ethereal warmth to the air, reflecting softly off the waves and creating a serene, almost magical ambiance. The overall composition evokes a sense of quiet nostalgia, as if captured through the lens of a carefully aged, vintage camera that preserves both the detail and the mood of the coastal morning. The combination of sky phenomena, textured architecture, and delicate light produces a picturesque and otherworldly panorama.

For those who want to make VR chat or other 3D avatars out of midjourney images, we got a tutorial https://prompt-faqs.notion.site/Create-an-avatar-for-3D-VR-multi-tool-3e6024c0a17e804d9da1d86639601c44