Patrick Eleazar

The Shadowed Heart

Film

The Shadowed Heart is a dark reimagining of L. Frank Baum’s public-domain Oz universe, created as an AI-assisted short film about grief, power, and moral transformation. Oz has fallen. The Tin Woodman has been slain. The Scarecrow has been taken. Dorothy Gale, hardened by loss, now leads the last army of Oz through mud, ruin, and storm toward the Witch’s castle, carrying the dead Tin Woodman’s forged heart as both relic and wound. What began as a journey home has become a march to retribution — a final passage through the broken heart of Oz, where every step toward justice carries the weight of what has been lost.