Music videos published in the The Stash Permanent Collection will always value the director’s design/animation/VFX craft over the popularity of the performer, which makes our year-end list refreshingly different than most. [Watch]
Laundry ECD/co-founder PJ Richardson takes a deep dive into AI art and animation in this visually opulent short film created for a digital art exhibition in Barcelona curated by OFFF founder Hector Ayuso. [Watch]
While admitting he is still ambivalent about AI, Amsterdam-based director/digital artist Menno Fokma embraced the new technology to jump-start this proof of concept for a short film he describes as “a hyper-real nature simulation.” [Watch]
Directing duo Julien Vallée and Eve Duhamel veer from their signature production method of hands-on, in-camera effects to explore AI in After Light, a short film they describe as a “playful twist on dystopia”. [Watch]
Justin Hackney, a London-based CD/director and founder of the AI community Realdreams.io, is on a mission to share and democratize generative creative tools. With this short film, he “unveils a cinematic odyssey through time and space.” [Watch]
After watching the growth of AI in video with both curiosity and anxiety, Berlin-based director Xaver Boehm says he felt overwhelmed but decided to embrace the tools when he realized the technology was here to stay. [Watch]
