Bent Light

» Intimate vérité documentary teaser, handheld 16mm texture, natural workshop light. Opening: darkness, then a ribbon flame licks up and a glass tube begins to glow against an old craftswoman's spectacles as she rolls it patiently through the fire; honest room tone only — the whisper of gas, the creak of her stool, no music. Cut to: macro close-ups of the trade — glass softening like honey, a practiced breath puffed through a blow hose swelling the bend, electrodes sparking a dead tube from gray to blazing rose; a sparse guitar enters under the crackle of igniting neon. Cut to: vérité street beat — she stands on the night sidewalk watching a crane lower a dead neon sign from a theater facade while a flat LED panel waits on the flatbed, her face lit half pink, half white; the guitar thins to nothing, traffic hush, one distant sign buzzing its last. Cut to: final shot — the workshop at midnight — she throws a knife switch and a whole wall of finished letters floods the room in layered color, the apprentice's upturned face bathed in it, both of them grinning into the glow; one warm rising chord under the hum of a hundred lit tubes, cut to black between two flickers. Muted 16mm archival grade with blooming neon halation, organic grain and gate weave, natural volumetric light, ultra-detailed, patient handheld vérité movement, documentary trailer pacing, no text, no captions, no watermark.