Laen Sanches, a French art director and motion designer based in Amsterdam, recruits the Midjourney AI platform to create an undersea dystopia designed to submerge the viewer in the disturbing reality of ocean plastic pollution. [Watch]
UK illustrator/animator Steve Cutts (whose short film Happiness we consider mandatory viewing), just dropped his latest cheery observation about humanity, a frantic three-minute look at our proclivity for conflict called “A Brief Disagreement”. [Watch]
Following a stellar run on the festival circuit, the quizzical charm of Au Revoir Jérôme! (Goodbye Jerome!), the graduation film by Gobelins students Adam Sillard, Gabrielle Selnet, and Chloé Farr is now available for your viewing pleasure. [Watch]
Toronto director/animator Jordan Clarke reverses the usual process of creating AI-generated films by manually animating visuals to a narrative generated by OpenAI in response to his prompt. [Watch]
London director/editor Riccardo Fusetti describes his newest personal short film Generation (a visceral mix of live-action, rotoscoping, stock footage, and AI) as “A brief journey through the human experience as seen by the eyes of an Artificial Intelligence.” [Watch]
After resonating deeply with festival audiences, Spiegeling, the animated short film by Dutch director Sanna de Vries brings its timely message about our obsession with self-image to the online universe where the problem is perhaps most virulent. [Watch]
