Origin Of Discovery

“Genre Founded By Accident”

Auntrolye was never planned. 

It was not born from a pitch deck, aesthetic philosophy, or theoretical framework. It was discovered, through narrative resistance and creative surrender. In the early hours of December 22nd, 2024, David Cataraga sat down to write what he assumed would be a psychologically dense character piece. The premise was grounded. The intention was simple: explore the emotional depth of a character haunted by unresolved trauma. But within minutes of writing, the structure began to unravel, not in error, but in revelation.

Scenes began to disobey time. Dialogue bled into internal monologue. Events once meant to unfold in sequence began to collapse and reappear, not because of style, but because the character’s emotional logic was asserting itself over conventional storytelling. Cataraga did not resist. He let the narrative bend. The writing session lasted just under an hour, fifty minutes that ruptured cinematic tradition. What had started as a psychological drama revealed itself to be something unnameable, something structurally new.

Over the following months, what seemed at first like instability became a recognizable pattern. Emotional states began to enforce spatial logic. Perception dictated pacing. Memory became structure. As Cataraga refined, rewrote, and studied the behavioral shape of his narrative, he realized that this wasn't fragmentation, it was formation. The rules were not soft patterns, they were consistent laws being obeyed intuitively.

On May 4th, 2025, after dozens of rewrites, experiments, and theoretical dissections, Cataraga recognized the full scope of what he had uncovered: a genre. Not a variation. Not a mood. A cinematic form governed by specific internal mechanics, a structural system that no existing genre could contain. Auntrolye had never been intended, but its arrival was unavoidable. What began in confusion had crystallized into law.

And most importantly: it didn’t start because someone wanted to invent something new.
It started because the film would not obey anything old.