IT’S ALL RIGHT

come here · it’s all right · come in

A film by Watson Hartsoe · PAE-02 · Bolas · 2026

A person speaks to a dog in three sentences. The order, come here, fails: the dog backs away and turns its back. Then the person sits, opens the door, lowers a hand and says it’s all right, and the dog’s head comes round. Come in is said only once the dog has reached the sill. It looks in, and stays.

The scene is written once, as a score. Each tile below is the same moment told in another language: cut paper, bones, archive film, print, code. Watch them answer together.

The film · 41 sEvery telling plays at once, on one score. Each line lands, and every dog answers at the same instant.

Trailer · 69 sCome here. It’s all right. Come in.

COME IN · 27 minThe same film, passing through every door, one telling after another.

Written

Said

Done

Answered

the person says

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what the dog decideswatches

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Every dog

Each dog is cropped from its own telling with the box its maker measured, frame by frame. Tap one to see how that telling speaks.

Lotte Reiniger

SCION 02

The dog
Made of
Moved by
Its trick
The critic

The test

The scene was written once, as a score from the PAELEO decision machine: the dog’s choices, frame by frame, and the person’s words and acts. Every telling had to keep four invariants, measured from its own render, and then pass independent critics who saw only the picture and heard only the sound, never the maker’s notes. Repairs stopped after five rounds; two tellings stopped there and stay on the record.

I1 · the choicesEach of the dog’s six choices lands within a quarter second of the score.

I2 · the thresholdThe dog reaches the sill and lies across it, half in, half out.

I3 · the directionIt moves the way the score moves: away, then toward the door.

I4 · the refusalIt turns its back on the order.

Read the brief, the score and every telling’s sheets and critic rounds.

SCION	Telling	How it is made	I1	I2	I3	I4	Critic

For programmers

“Come here” drives a dog away. “It’s all right” turns its head. “Come in” brings it to the door, and no further. A film about what words can do.

Dusk, a porch, a doorway. A person calls a dog: Come here. It backs away. Called again and reached for, it turns its back. Then the person stops asking: they sit, the door opens, a hand is offered low. It’s all right, softly, and the dog’s head comes round. It comes, lies across the sill, hears come in, looks inside, and stays.

The press kit: synopses, how words enter the dog, how it was made, format sheet and credits.

Posters

The cast: one dog, in every language it was told in.

Poster: a cut-paper door, IT'S ALL RIGHT

Poster: dogs in the light of one doorway