Shadow Shade Studios

Gust

A glowing amber autumn leaf falls from a cold bare branch, with warm rays of sunlight shining through its veins.

A SHADOW SHADE STUDIOS SHORT FILM

GUST

Time wears the face of a Reaper. Wind is its scythe.

Premieres January 2027

Follow the wind
BETWEEN LIGHT AND SHADOWA MOMENT. A LIFETIME. A GUST.

01 / THE FILM

Time moves
through
everything.

GUST is a cinematic meditation on Time: the silent Reaper moving through a world that never stops changing. Wind carries its presence through the rise of civilizations, the intimacy of ordinary lives, and the quiet return of everything to nature.

Its Reaper does not hurry. The world supplies the motion: dust over stone, fabric in an open window, grass bending beneath an unseen force.

Wind is Time’s scythe. It passes through what we build and what we love, marking change without ever needing a blade.

02 / TIME, THE REAPER

The world falls quiet.
Time moves on.

A presence in the last light. A breath across the years.

A glimpse of GUST. Sound is off until you choose to hear the wind.

The years pass.
The wind remembers.

Beyond the stones, the Reaper drifts through the last light. Grass bows. The air gathers. For a moment, the whole world seems to remember.

GUST JANUARY 2027

Warm light shines through a delicate falling autumn leaf beneath a cold, frost-edged branch.
GUST / CONCEPT ARTWORK

03 / A MOMENT IN THE LIGHT

Even in the fall,
there is light.

A beautiful autumn leaf lets go of a cold, harsh branch. A gentle breeze carries it downward while warm rays of light glow through its veins.

For one brief moment, every fragile detail is illuminated. GUST finds beauty there: in the passage itself, and in what we are able to notice before it passes.

04 / WHERE IT BEGAN

Before the film,
there was a poem.

GUST began as a poem Nate Green dedicated to his uncle after his uncle received a terminal diagnosis. That deeply personal beginning is the foundation of the short film—a reflection on time, impermanence, and the beauty of a life while it is here.

For the lives that shape ours.
For the moments we still have.

GUST poster featuring the Reaper's dry cracked mask, dark eye sockets, matte wind-torn hood, bare autumn branches, and Premieres January 2027.

05 / INTO THE STILLNESS

Light fades.
Wind passes.
Time continues.

GUST brings the tenderness of its beginnings into a haunting world of weathered bone, cold moonlight, and wind-carried change.

Across light and darkness, the same quiet force moves through every scene.

Concept artwork / Shadow Shade Studios

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Premieres January 2027

Written and Directed by
Nate Green
Produced by
Rob Martin & Adam Nguyen

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