The Book of Immersion is the official home of Sarnia de la Maré’s sci-fi series — an AI-human fusion epic told through Strata chapters, cinematic shorts, experimental sound, and evolving lore. Explore transmissions, glossaries, film sequences, and the expanding Immersion universe as Renyke, Shabra, and the Cadre navigate fractured futures and hidden truths. Enter the Strata and begin your descent.
🎬 Introducing 916 Cinema — Vertical Stories for the New Age
🎧 Watch the full playlist → • 🧬 Book of Immersion 📚 Read the book → https://amzn.to/48G7KRO 🛍️ Explore merch → https://www.redbubble.com/people/tale... Our main character for Volume 1 of Book of Immersion finds himself in an unknown world. What will become of him? Find out at 916 Cinema with daily stories and episodes for the modern world. 📖 From Book of Immersion by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA 🎥 Presented by 916 Cinema — Vertical Stories | Literary Worlds | Cinema in 9:16 💬 What did you think of this scene? Would you trust POS or run for your life? 👇 Tell us in the comments — new shorts every week!
Every story has a shape.
Some are sprawling epics meant for the silver screen; others live best inside a glowing rectangle in your hand. 916 Cinema was born at the intersection — a studio dedicated to crafting cinematic stories in the vertical frame.
From the worlds of The Book of Immersion to the sultry wit of Mills & Swoon, these 9:16 films transform words into movement, light, and rhythm. They are designed for the scroll — but built with the care of cinema.
💡 What Is 916 Cinema?
916 Cinema is the official film imprint of the Tale Teller Club Studios, created by author and artist Sarnia de la Maré FRSA.
Each short, trailer, and timelapse is a doorway into one of the studio’s expanding story worlds — science fiction, romance, art, and sound.
The format is vertical, but the vision is wide.
🎥 Expect:
Serialized shorts adapted from The Book of Immersion
Mills & Swoon one-minute romances reimagined for the screen
Timelapse Tales — behind-the-scenes art films revealing the drawings behind the cinema
Original sound and score by iServalan, the sonic alter-ego of the studio
🌐 The Idea Behind the Frame
The 9:16 frame isn’t a limitation — it’s a lens.
It turns the phone into a private theatre, where the viewer stands inches from the narrative.
916 Cinema explores this intimacy: faces close, whispers louder, emotions magnified.
Every corner glows with the studio’s signature identity — a pulse of light, a whisper of circuitry, a trace of romance in motion.
🪩 Watch Now
The channel is live on YouTube:
👉 Visit 916 Cinema on YouTube
Subscribe for weekly releases of vertical stories, art reels, and cinematic experiments from the worlds of Immersion and Mills & Swoon.
🖌️ Behind the Lens: Timelapse Tales
To celebrate the launch, the first playlist features “Timelapse Tales | The Art Behind the Cinema.”
These hypnotic short films capture the hand-drawn origins of the studio’s visual language — pencil, ink, and imagination unfolding in real time.
They’re not tutorials. They’re artworks — portraits of creation itself.
🚀 A New Chapter in the Immersion Universe
916 Cinema is more than a YouTube channel.
It’s the next layer of The Book of Immersion — an experiment in how fiction, art, and sound converge in digital space.
Each film begins where the page ends, blurring the line between reader and viewer.
📚 Read. Watch. Immerse.
Welcome to the cinema of tomorrow — told vertically.
Renyke is unsure of his whereabouts. But he has POS, she is the font of all knowledge, the all knowing eye, the immortal Goddess. Perhaps she will guide him towards the truth. But in a world full of lies and misconceptions, who can really be trusted? Watch the story unfold in 9:16 cinema. Welcome to our world.
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