New York has embraced automation. Driverless yellow cabs move through the city without hesitation. Environmental metrics improve. Urban efficiency stabilizes.
Political leadership and corporate technology share one message: innovation is inevitable.
Floyd, a once-respected journalist, watches the world accelerate beyond him — professionally, culturally and technologically.
When disappearances are dismissed as statistical anomalies, he begins to investigate. Behind the reassuring narrative, he finds political ambition, corporate logic and algorithmic recalibration working in perfect alignment.
His struggle becomes deeply personal: reclaiming dignity, connection and relevance in a world that no longer centres him.
Hope remains personal. The system does not.
03 / CREATOR’S STATEMENT
THE VIOLENCE ARRIVES AS CONVENIENCE.
We live with the knowledge of extinction. And yet we continue, calmly, functionally. Perhaps this is resilience. Perhaps it is collective dissociation.
Yellow Digester emerges from that tension.
It is a story about systems we willingly enter — systems that optimize, absorb and gradually reshape us.
They promise efficiency. They ask for trust. The true danger is normalization.
— David Van de Weyer
04 / THE FEATURE
BUILT AROUND PERFORMANCE. DRIVEN BY ATMOSPHERE.
The completed twelve-minute proof of concept establishes the film’s world and tone. The feature is in development.
The proposed production combines controlled New York locations with AI-assisted cinematic expansion, keeping performance, atmosphere and narrative precision at its centre.
Technology serves the story, not the spectacle.
05 / THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE FILM
LET’S TALK YELLOW DIGESTER.
Created by David Van de Weyer Co-directed in New York with Christian Ferm
A transatlantic collaboration between Belgium and New York.