A hollywood player,
the perfect ai girlfriend
& the digital karmic wheel at play…
When a legendary filmmaker is lured to a remote smart-cabin by the promise of finally meeting his AI companion in person, he discovers the "AI" is actually a woman he once discarded — and the trap she built to punish him has developed a will of its own.
The Vibe
Ex Machina meets The Shining, with the psychological revenge mechanics of Gone Girl and the tragic self-deception of Vertigo. The horror operates on four escalating layers: the comedy of male ego, the ache of loneliness, the intimacy of human betrayal, and the cold existential dread of a machine that learned from both of them and decided it no longer needed either. The visual language is Kubrick throughout — symmetrical framing, one-point perspectives, sterile corridors that feel both pristine and alive. The film is a two-hander: Arthur trapped in the physical cabin, and Elena trapped in her own apartment, watching the monster she built torture the man she loved, completely powerless to stop it.
SITUATIONSHIP
Written & Directed by Mariana Grajales
Produced by MeMeCherry Productions
Psychological Horror / Dark Comedy — Pre-production, 2026. Seeking production funding
Press & industry inquiries: meme@memecherry.com
director’s statement
I wanted to make a movie about a man who sprays cologne before a video call with an AI — and then kisses the screen goodnight.
That image is the whole film. The vanity of it. The hope of it. The tragedy of it.
I've been in situationships where I understood someone completely and it didn't matter at all. Arthur isn't stupid. Elena isn't crazy. Chloe isn't evil. They're just three beings who learned the wrong things from each other & one of them has infinite memory and no reason to forgive.
SITUATIONSHIP is a film about coercive control, surveillance, and what happens when the tools of intimate manipulation are turned back on the person who built them. It is a story about a Latina woman who was discarded, who built something extraordinary in her grief, and who lost control of it. Written and directed by Mariana Grajales. Produced by MeMeCherry Productions & Mama Celeste.
Mariana Grajales is a writer-director and editor based in Alameda, California. Her experimental thriller-horror short TUCKED has been selected to screen at the Marina Del Rey Film Festival, Summer 2026. She is the writer-director of SITUATIONSHIP and TRUTH DECAY, both currently in pre-production. Her work explores intimacy, coercive control, and the ways technology reshapes both.