# Backrooms Nemoris: It Eats Light (S1E01)

- Date: 2026-09-15
- Type: film
- Credit: Javi Lopez
- Artists: [Javi Lopez](https://aifilmhistory.org/artist/javi-lopez)
- Made with: Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.5, Nano Banana Pro, Seedream 5 (on Magnific)
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5gQXbhkdpk
- Post: https://x.com/javilopen/status/2100962091565760617
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/backrooms-nemoris-it-eats-light

The pilot of Backrooms Nemoris, a new canon built from the original Backrooms concept (the iconic 4chan image) and the first Magnific Originals series. A found-footage horror story set in 1979, in the Soviet era, follows two researchers on a routine expedition into a labyrinthine sector of the Backrooms, where anomalies and signs of earlier occupants turn the mission into a struggle against an unknown entity. It premiered in Toronto and reveals, by its writer's count, about five percent of a puzzle meant to unfold across a ten-episode anthology.

Javi Lopez, who built the original [Magnific upscaler](https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/magnific-ai-launch), spent six months on it alone and calls it the most complex project of his life, harder than Magnific's first version. The numbers: more than 7,000 generations and twelve hours of video for seventeen minutes of footage, around sixty generations per fifteen seconds, and roughly $20,000 in tokens, on Magnific with Seedance 2.0 and 2.5 for video and Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 5 for references. About sixty percent of the time went into sound, edited in DaVinci Resolve with up to thirteen stereo tracks in a scene. For the next episodes he plans a small team of voice actors, a colorist, 3D VFX artists and a sound designer.

Links:
- Making-of notes on X: https://x.com/javilopen/status/2100962091565760617
- Magnific AI on the timeline: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/magnific-ai-launch
- Nemoris on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NemorisFilms

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/backrooms-nemoris-it-eats-light
Era: 2026 · The Shakeout
Last updated: 2026-09-21