THE GAMES

The Games is a cinematic fragment of 1001 Nights in the Facility, where basketball is reborn as myth and rivalry. Inside a ruined colosseum simulated within the Las Vegas Sphere, the Aces and Fever, the Lynx and Mercury, take the floor not as players, but as warriors. A glowing basketball rises like the moon, benches turn into thrones, and every contest becomes legend.

This found-art reel fuses WNBA intensity with ritual and spectacle, translating rivalries into ceremony. The Games is not a recap — it is a mythic reimagining of what happens when sport collides with story.

Narrative, and Conceptual Art — Copyright 2025 E Maria Shelton Speller

Creative Platforms & Tools:

Artlist.io – Licensed music and sound effects
ChatGPT (OpenAI) – AI-assisted scriptwriting and narrative development
MidJourney – AI-generated concept imagery and character visualization
iMovie – Video editing and sequencing
Other Production Tools – Standard video/audio processing and conceptual design tools

Credits:

Music
Farewell to a Warrior
Song by Jakub Pietras

SFX
Balling – Swish, Basketball Going Through Basket
Sound by BOOM Library

Basketball Game – Arena Ambience, Ball Bouncing,
Shoes Squeaking, Crowd Clapping
Sound by Stringer Sound