Cataraga's Timeline

“How He Got Here”

2020: Foundations in Film Language

At just eleven years old, Cataraga was already studying cinema not as spectacle, but as structure. While others his age were drawn to plot twists or visual grandeur, he became fixated on something else entirely, mastering every aspect of cinema. He began dissecting how films made people feel, tracing moments of character collapse, hidden grief, or quiet implosions as those were proven as difficult tasks. This early interest wasn’t casual. It was architectural. He wasn’t learning how to film scenes, he was learning how to master every storytelling point.

2022: Narrative Mastery Begins

Cataraga began crafting his own personal cinematic works, focusing on mastering scriptwriting through cinematic immersion. Rather than tell stories blandly, he intuitively began blending nonlinear timelines with subjective memory, long before realizing this would become the basis of a structural system. His writing and editing processes became inseparable, form followed perception, not plot. These early creations weren’t yet Auntrolye, but they were undeniable precursors, as a result of the challenges faced when seeking to master such skills.

December 2024: The Realization

It was during the writing of what would become Grudge that Cataraga had his first confrontation with genre limitation. The story demanded emotional recursion, perceptual disorientation, and moral ambiguity so immersive that no genre could structurally contain it. He wasn’t rejecting traditional form, he was discovering it had no space for what he was making. Instead of changing the story, he changed the framework. Grudge wasn’t created to test a theory, it forced the theory into existence.

February 2025: Structural Discovery

After completing the film, Cataraga didn’t stop at intuition. He began analyzing why the film functioned the way it did as a way to better master his skills. Patterns emerged: perception overriding sequence, emotional causality shaping narrative law, and memory distortion replacing exposition. From these patterns, he codified rules, not arbitrary limitations, but necessary mechanics. For the first time, he began describing Auntrolye not as a mood, but as a genre governed by internal systems.

April 2025: Grudge Released

The film was made public. It was raw, precise, and unlike anything its early viewers expected. While it wasn’t widely seen, those who engaged with it deeply reported a sense of cognitive alignment with the character’s disintegration, a narrative not watched, but endured. What emerged from the feedback was validation not of tone or concept, but of structure. Viewers were noticing what Cataraga had systematized: emotional reality manifesting as world-building law.

May 2025: Auntrolye Framework Finalized

In response to recurring narrative behaviors, Cataraga finalized the genre framework. It included the now-official three-tier law system (Category I, II, III) and formal definitions of how Auntrolye handles memory, perception, and causality. With its rules now clearly defined and repeatable across different potential stories, Auntrolye was no longer a film type. It was a genre, with architectural proof.

June 2025: Public Resistance & Rejection

Cataraga began sharing his findings widely. He sent material to BBC, CNN, and multiple film departments, only to be met with dismissal or indifference. On Reddit, he attempted to engage with critical communities, philosophy, screenwriting, film theory, but was banned for “over-conceptualizing” and “thinking too loud.” He messaged LinkedIn professionals, scholars, and filmmakers, only to face silence or confusion. While the world praised innovation in hindsight, real-time discovery was unwelcome. Rather than deterring him, this resistance only affirmed the genre's necessity: when something truly new emerges, the first reaction is rejection, not recognition.

July 2025: Public Launch of the Auntrolye Movement

Undeterred, Cataraga formalized the public launch of Auntrolye. The official site went live, complete with framework, history, proof of concept, and genre definitions. He began educating others, not by trying to be accepted, but by offering clarity. What started as personal necessity had become public architecture. Auntrolye was no longer a singular creation, it was a movement with structure, history, and purpose.