Skywhale Airways · Press Kit

A Psychedelic Airport for Time Travelers

A surreal 53-second retro airport short where fish keep schedules, luggage remembers, and every terminal belongs to a different decade.

A golden skywhale floating over a surreal airport runway

Synopsis

A lone Time Traveller enters Skywhale Airways, an airport for lost decades. Fish drift through the terminals like aircraft, clocks refuse ordinary time, and the runway opens like a memory. By the end of the journey, she arrives with one bag, one body, and tomorrow's yesterday.

Film Details

Title: A Psychedelic Airport for Time Travelers
Brand: Skywhale Airways
Runtime: 53 seconds, web cut
Festival cut: 63 seconds with title and credits cards
Challenge: AI Film Club · Retro Challenge · June 2026
Format: 16:9 · 1080p source · H.264 MP4 web embed
Created by: Kris Krug & Suzie Easton
Music: whale sky god
Public site: skywhaleairways.com

Watch / download web cut Read the colophon Open the airport

Stills

Golden skywhale airport still — The Skywhale Airport

Duplicate selves waiting room still — Gate Delay / Duplicate Selves

Zero-gravity transfer still — Zero-Gravity Transfer

Golden fish flight still — Golden Fish Flight

Cloud orchard layover still — Cloud-Orchard Layover

Pink rotunda arrival still — Pink Rotunda Arrival

Production Notes

The stills were generated in Midjourney and curated into ten gouache keyframes. The animation was generated scene by scene with Veo 3.1, then assembled to the spoken-word lounge track whale sky god. The site itself is a hand-built Vite / Three.js microsite with a scroll-driven WebGL journey, interactive boarding pass, Decade Weather card, film embed, and Skywhale Airways Duty-Free concept shop.