The Stage 32 Videos

A short cinematic animation showcasing my work in visual storytelling, character animation, visual effects, camera direction, and atmosphere. This is a work in progress and part of my continuing development as a filmmaker and animation director. I’m always interested in connecting with filmmakers, writers, musicians, and other artists for creative collaborations.

METALMAN: The Signal Beneath the Sea METALMAN: The Signal Beneath the Sea is an original 17-minute science-fiction audio-visual story combining cinematic storytelling, original worldbuilding, atmospheric imagery, narration, and an original CARLIGHTS soundtrack. Set along a mysterious futuristic coastline, the story follows Metalman, a silver humanoid who begins receiving an unexplained signal through the radio of his 1992 Subaru SVX. What first sounds like a mechanical heartbeat leads him toward an abandoned stretch of coast, an ancient structure beneath the sea, and a discovery that challenges everything he believes about his own origins. The project grew from a series of original visual concepts into a complete fictional world, bringing together retro-futuristic coastal cities, Egyptian-modern architecture, early-2000s video-game atmosphere, mysterious technology, Dinobot, Commander Kane, and the submerged machine known as the Heart. I developed the story, concept, world and visual direction collaboratively using AI-assisted creative tools, while creating the original soundtrack myself as CARLIGHTS. The score was produced with Spire and uses its central musical theme at different speeds alongside environmental ambience to create a continuous, mysterious atmosphere beneath the narration. Rather than approaching this first installment as a fully animated film, I chose a narrated story format supported by a small collection of consistent-character images. This allows the writing, worldbuilding, narration and original music to carry the experience while giving the audience glimpses into the larger Metalman universe. The Signal Beneath the Sea is the first completed Metalman story and a proof of concept for a world that could expand into further narrated stories, short films, animation, games, or live-action science-fiction. I’m interested in connecting with filmmakers, producers, writers, directors and other creatives who are drawn to atmospheric science fiction, unusual fictional worlds and original audiovisual storytelling — both for the future of Metalman and for collaborations where my concept development, worldbuilding, writing, visual direction or music could contribute to other projects.

City beneath the city. The City That Made Its Own Kings Long before the Caravellis ever touched Nevada soil, the valley had already chosen the kind of men it would allow to thrive. The early settlers believed they were building a town when they drove stakes into the sand and laid out streets in the heat. What they built instead was a framework of favors and obligations, a place where survival depended less on law than on the quiet agreements made between men who understood the cost of being forgotten. The desert did not reward innocence. It rewarded nerve. The first real foundations of Las Vegas were not poured in concrete but in compromise. Se more trailers at our group page https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1ConKMiVLD/

City beneath the city. The City That Made Its Own Kings Long before the Caravellis ever touched Nevada soil, the valley had already chosen the kind of men it would allow to thrive. The early settlers believed they were building a town when they drove stakes into the sand and laid out streets in the heat. What they built instead was a framework of favors and obligations, a place where survival depended less on law than on the quiet agreements made between men who understood the cost of being forgotten. The desert did not reward innocence. It rewarded nerve. The first real foundations of Las Vegas were not poured in concrete but in compromise.

In a Colón plagued by poverty and vice, a mother trapped in alcoholism hits rock bottom and finds her redemption through faith. However, her true battle begins as she attempts to rescue her two sons from the grips of crime; a decades-long odyssey marked by a tragic murder, a mysterious escape from the dreaded Coiba Island prison, and a spiritual enigma that will be resolved thirty-three years later on her deathbed."

Uploaded by Junípero Oficial on 2022-08-12. Written / Directed and Produced by Maria J Minutti / MISTICO FILMS

Uploaded by Junípero Oficial on 2022-11-01. Written/ Directed/ Produced by Maria J Minutti

Uploaded by Jossi Minutti on 2025-08-08.

Escrito y dirigido por MJ Minutti Fotografía y corrección de color por Pedro Augusto Edición por Rodrigo Álvarez AC Magui Iñiguez Vestuario por Mitochondria Artware Dirección de arte por Mischka Ippolita y José Minutti Actuaciones de Nadia Parra y Sofia Jofré Música por Aldo Monraz

Directed by MJ Minutti DOP Ivan D. R Mini docu/ video art for MUGAK Artist: Juan Pablo Lascurain PA: Leandro Bulzzano MISTICO FILMS & arttsy media production Mexico city 2024