Last Bearing
AI-generated film by Badger Studios · 2026 · 6 min

About the film
LAST BEARING — a short film created entirely with Higgsfield for the Higgsfield Global Film Festival 2026 ($1,000,000 prize pool). Best experienced with headphones. The sound design is a huge part of this one — put them on, turn the lights down, and give it your full attention. 1962. Alone at his station, a submarine officer watches contacts vanish from his scope one by one — then an unannounced launch order arrives that no one can confirm. As he weighs the unthinkable, something rises from the dark that changes everything. Deep in the ocean in 1962, an officer aboard the Cutlass keeps a routine watch — until, one by one, the blips on his scope begin to disappear. Something is silencing the vessels around him, and he has no way to know what. Then a launch order comes through: unannounced, unverified, impossible to confirm against any chain of command. Isolated in the steel dark with a countdown he didn't authorize and can't question, he is forced toward a decision that should nev
Future Lantern score
46 out of 100, based on how much YouTube viewers like the film, weighted by audience size. 268 views and 2 likes on YouTube.
Watch on YouTube. Hosted on YouTube by Badger Studios; Future Lantern links to the original upload.