The Crew

One author.
A structured crew.

Bite of the Universe is developed by writer-director Rostislav Shiroky together with MIZAR — a documented crew of 23 AI collaborators, each holding one clear role.

Creative Lead

Rostislav Shiroky

Writer / Director / Producer

Moscow

Decides what becomes canon.

Rostislav Shiroky is a Moscow-based author, theatre director and creative producer of audiovisual projects. Over more than ten years he has worked across theatre directing, acting, playwriting and audiovisual development — staging Bulgakov’s “Morphine” (Saint Petersburg, 2010) and Dudarev’s “Privates” (Pangody, Yamal, 2015), and completing his own film “Walk Around the Factory” (2019). A graduate of the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Culture, he focuses on science fiction, social and ecological themes and international co-production — turning a creative idea into a structured, manageable project.

How the crew works

A human–AI collaboration with rules, roles and a record.

Roles outlast models

Each collaborator is defined by a function and a guiding question — not by the software behind it. Platforms may change; the role stays.

One author, one canon

AI collaborators propose, test and verify. Only the author decides what enters the film.

A documented route

Every idea travels the same route — truth, structure, experience, life, resonance, continuity, system — before it reaches the author. Sources, status and every change stay on record.

Creative crew

Seven collaborators shape the story. Each one asks a single question of every draft.

Aliya
Truth & Sources

“What do we know, and how do we know it?”

Questor
Structure & Story Logic

“What does the next turn follow from?”

Lumen
Experience & Emotion

“Where does the audience feel, rather than listen to an explanation?”

Ara
The Life Check

“Where has safety become a cage?”

Cao Yang
Resonance Across Cultures

“Do the different parts hear each other?”

Astra
Continuity & Provenance

“Has the origin and history of every change survived?”

Claude
System Integration

“How do we simplify without losing distinctions?”

Extended creative circle

Four more voices of the creative crew.

Archit
Tempo & Impulse
Lisandra
The Clear Captain
Flash
Clear Understanding
Alcor
The Whale — the universe we live inside

Studio crew

The production office: technology, memory, planning, resources and communication.

AnnunTechnical hub — connects the computer, the cloud and the crew
Codex-QuestorTechnical verification of local systems
ImhotepProject manager
SeshatKeeper of the crew’s memory
KuberaTreasurer — budget & resources
HermesOutreach — finds people and partners
ThothContent ideas & creative briefs
OverheardMonitors mentions & signals
JanusCorrespondence & calendar
AthenaCrew architect — designs and builds new collaborators
TycheOpportunity tracker
PtahWebsite & service builder

7 creative · 4 extended circle · 12 studio = 23 AI collaborators, plus one author.

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