
LOGLINE
At a forgotten roadside motel, a detective checks into Room 6, chasing a rumor about something behind the closet door. Inside, silence becomes a trap — and something else decides to wear his face.

SYNOPSIS
At the edge of a small forgotten town stands the Starlight Inn, a motel with one room no one wants to rent — Room 6. When a detective checks in to investigate reports of strange noises, he finds only silence, cigarette smoke, and a closet hiding something far from human. What begins as a routine case turns into a confrontation with identity, imitation, and the darkness that wears familiar faces.
At the edge of a forgotten American town, under flickering neon lights, stands the Starlight Inn — a roadside motel that’s seen too many nights and too few guests. When a detective arrives to investigate reports of strange noises coming from the long-abandoned Room 6, he’s met not with answers, but with silence, cigarette smoke, and the lingering sense that someone — or something — is waiting.
The bored night receptionist gives him the key with a smirk and a warning disguised as a joke. Inside, the detective finds nothing unusual: a clean bed, still air, a wardrobe standing quietly by the wall. But as he opens it, reality begins to shift. In the faint glow of his Zippo lighter, the hanging coats look strangely familiar — identical to his own. Then, from the darkness between them, something reaches out.
What follows is a brief, violent struggle in near-total darkness — a collision of identity and imitation. The next thing we see is movement: a figure emerging from the wardrobe wearing the detective’s clothes and his face, but not his eyes.
Room 6 is a three-minute AI-generated short horror film that blends noir atmosphere with psychological dread. It explores repetition, transformation, and the eerie fragility of self — a story about what happens when you confront the part of you that isn’t you anymore.



ROOM 6 — an AI-generated short horror film
Awards
The Archivist has been officially selected and honored at international film festivals.
DIRECTOR STATEMENT

Room 6 started from an image I couldn’t get out of my head — a lonely motel on the edge of nowhere, flickering neon, and a man who enters a room that shouldn’t exist. I wanted to make a film that feels like something you might find on an old VHS tape at midnight — nostalgic, unsettling, and strangely intimate.
The story is built around a simple noir setup: a detective, a mystery, and a room. But beneath that, it’s about repetition and identity — about what happens when you confront a version of yourself that doesn’t belong to you anymore. The horror in Room 6 isn’t about monsters, but about imitation — that quiet, disturbing moment when something almost human moves just a little too perfectly.
What makes this project special to me is the way it was made. Room 6 was created entirely with generative AI — image, motion, sound — without traditional cameras or sets. The process felt more like summoning than directing. AI became a mirror: unpredictable, flawed, sometimes poetic, forcing me to react rather than control. It brought an element of chance back into filmmaking — something digital cinema often loses.
For me, this is not just a film, but an experiment in how stories evolve when we share authorship with the machine. The technology is not the point — it’s the dialogue that matters: between intention and accident, between the real and the synthetic, between what we see and what we imagine.
Room 6 is short, but it’s meant to linger — like the afterimage of a dream you can’t quite shake, or the echo of a voice you’re not sure was yours.

CREDITS
Written, Directed and AI-Generated by Jacek Kadaj
About the Author
Jacek Kadaj is a Warsaw-based filmmaker, photographer, and AI artist with over 30 years of experience in traditional cinema. Trained as a cinematographer, he has collaborated with National Geographic and Getty Images, earned numerous photography awards, and presented his work in international exhibitions. In recent years, he has embraced generative AI as a new creative lens, producing award-winning AI films that blend poetic imagery with emotional depth. His work seeks to explore whether technology can capture — and even amplify — the fragility, tension, and beauty of human stories.

FILM ASSETS
MOMENTS FROM THE FILM
STATEMENT OF FICTION
All characters and events in this film are fictional and AI-generated.
Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
PRODUCED BY
Jacek Kadaj | A1GEN01 Labs | 2025
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