I designed and built a cinematic teaser site for Matt Eastman's AI short film - from first meeting to handoff in just 5 days.
Matt Eastman
eastie.fun
Matt Eastman is a filmmaker and creative director who works across film, fiction, fashion, and AI. His brand - Eastman's Universe - is built around world-building and visual chaos. City Heat is his AI short film, a project that needed a digital home as cinematic as the work itself.
Results of my work
Designed, built and handed off in 5 days
Custom Atari ST monitor video player built from scratch in Framer custom code
Full teaser site live at eastie.fun
The story
Matt Eastman didn't need a website. He needed an experience. City Heat is an AI short film with a distinct visual world - pink, psychedelic, maximalist - and the site had to match that energy from the first second of loading.
One Page. One Feeling.
The brief was clear: no traditional website structure, no nav, no footer bloat. Just a single cinematic page that pulls you into the world of the film. The hero of the experience was a custom Atari ST monitor - a retro CRT frame built entirely in code - displaying the film in a 9:16 vertical format. The monitor wasn't decorative. It was the product.
Building Something That Didn't Exist
The Atari ST monitor wasn't a template or a plugin - it was designed in Figma as an SVG frame and built as a custom React component in Framer. Teal casing, orange bezel, cream highlights. Fully custom video controls: play/pause, seekable timeline, volume, mute, and fullscreen - including iOS Safari support. Every detail was considered, and several were revised based on Matt's direct feedback during the build.
Five Days, Start to Finish
From the first meeting to final handoff was exactly five days - faster than the agreed scope. The domain was set up, the build was handed over, and the film had a home that felt worthy of it.
