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Subtle Thing: Theo lying in the grass of a Paris park, among red and blue flowers

Subtle Thing

Paris, August. Theo, a lonely teenager who spends every summer in the hot, slowed-down city while his father works, meets Marnie, a wealthy boarding-school student temporarily stranded in Paris. She draws him into her world of art, music, and no consequence, inspiring him to imagine a life of travel, spontaneity and artistic expression.

Subtle Thing is Episode 6 of Playground, Season 1, a Storybook Studios production made in Cuelist.

Role
Director, Writer
Produced by
Storybook Studios, 2026
Made in
Cuelist
Executive producers
Sebastian Ungrad, Tobias M. Huber, Franziska Hansel
Series idea
Franziska Hansel, Sebastian Ungrad
Creative producer
Anatol Schuster
Line producer
Léonard Häberle
Post production
Awesome Pixels
Runtime
9 min

Stills

Theo in Marnie’s apartment beside the marble statue, Marnie on the sofa behind him
Marnie and Theo in her apartment, by the painting on the wall
Theo standing in the kitchen at home, the television on
Theo and Marnie close together in the greenhouse
Theo by a lit café terrace on a Paris evening
Theo in the dream, standing before the statue