

NewComic action, scale and editorial timing
Janky Mess
A credited director, editor and sound maker turning a small comic premise into a complete martial-arts short.
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- 1 film
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- Years
- 2026
- Last active
- 21 Oct 2026
Films

Janky Mess is the public directing credit on Last Fly, a Magnific Creative Hub production. The original also credits Janky Mess with editing and sound. A legal identity, additional biography and an independently verified full filmography are not inferred from that credit.
Why follow this filmmaker
The short builds its action around a precise mismatch: an elderly martial artist faces an insect that can retaliate. Making both opponents legible in one domestic space is a staging and editing task, not simply a request for spectacular generated motion. Direction and finishing are connected through the same credited maker.
Riz Esentaev and Max Balter supply the screenplay; Serhii Dmytriiev is lead AI artist, Sid Rivers is graphic artist and Balter is executive producer. The publisher’s commercial platform relationship is explicit. This is an emerging filmmaker entry based on a complete authored work, not a claim that one short establishes a sustained career.