Shelf Life

When bread across the town of Custard Cove suddenly develops emotional awareness, an investigation unfolds to solve a crisis that challenges everything the town knows about food and consciousness. The mystery leads to an scientific experiment gone...right.

Set in the magical realism of the Crumb Canvas universe, this 4:36 second dark absurdist comedy uses documentary-style storytelling to explore the beautiful absurdity of existence through the lens of bread with emotions that still fulfills its destiny of being consumed.

  • WellerVision
    Director
  • WellerVision
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 36 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 5, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • AI Film 3 - AI Film and Art Festival

    October 30, 2025
    Official Selection
Director Biography - WellerVision

C.E. Whitmore is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of WellerVision, an independent animation studio building tactile worlds in latent space. Her feature in development, The Last Waltz — a murder mystery told in pink noir — is a Finalist at the Dreamina AI Animation International Summit at the 66th Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where she presents at MIFA in June 2026.

Her work builds complete, inhabitable worlds — miniature places with their own logic, characters with histories that extend past the frame, and visual textures you want to touch.

WellerVision's flagship short, Golden Foster, won Best MicroFilm at the 2026 Hollywood Best Indie Film Awards and earned a Best AI Film nomination at the London Director Talents Movie Awards. The film was Semi-Finalist in Animation at the New York Indie Shorts Awards, with Official Selections at the New York Film & Cinematography Awards, Tokyo Film & Screenplay Awards, and Los Angeles Movie & Music Video Awards.

Whitmore's latest short, Egg, was selected for the inaugural Cinema Shift Festival in Toronto and named a Finalist at the AIMA AI Movie Awards in Mallorca.

Golden Foster is a dark fable set in Custard Cove, where banana characters audition for an experimental patisserie and discover that perfection is its own kind of trap. Shelf Life — an Official Selection at the AI Film 3 Festival — is a dark comedy about emotionally aware bread that must fulfill its destiny and be eaten. Hollywood Vamp trades stop-motion warmth for painterly gothic glamour.

Whitmore serves on the 2026 Jury for the Hollywood Best Indie Film Awards and the Los Angeles Movie & Music Video Awards.

WellerVision is based in the United States and Tirana, Albania.

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