AI-film, der er værd at se.

A lost continent ruled entirely by aunts. Auntlantis is exactly what it sounds like, a surrealist comedy that uses AI to world-build a civilisation governed by the specific wisdom, stubbornness, and unconditional love of the aunt.

An animated AI short film centered on a trial, exploring judgment and consequence through Moonframe's visual style. Music by Lotus ("LaBerge", via Epidemic Sound); written and edited by CGP.

Named for the 1924 Soviet science fiction film and its Martian queen, Aelita is a short about someone who doesn't belong where they've landed. The trio builds on the original's themes of longing and displacement using AI imagery that feels appropriately alien.

A medieval kingdom with something to hide, The King's Secret uses AI-generated imagery to build a period setting from scratch in 48 hours, then uses that setting to ask a question about power and what it costs to keep.

A 270-year history of the global coffee trade, from a guarded Yemeni monopoly punishable by death to export, through Pope Clement VIII's apocryphal blessing of the "Satanic drink," to the espionage and smuggling that broke the monopoly via the Dutch East India Company and finally collapsed the price of coffee worldwide.

A documentary parody narrated in the style of the beloved factory-process TV show, except the subject of production keeps getting weirder. The trio uses AI generation as the show's own manufacturing process, making a film about how AI films are made.

A short that takes sacrifice literally and metaphorically, building a drama around a figure who has accepted their role. The Egyptian filmmakers behind I'm the Lamb use AI to render iconographic imagery in a film about surrender and grace.

Named for the plant that spreads quietly, unasked for, finding luck in unlikely places. Faith Cho makes a film about resilience and small gifts that makes the most of its 48-hour window.

A short whose title is also its lie, there is enormous pressure, everywhere, at all times. Flandro uses the deadpan delivery of "no pressure" to build something about expectations and the performance of ease.

An early film from the creator of LAPSE and Antonomasia, the YZA Voku of 2023 sending something into the void without expectation of return. A raw, immediate experimental short that shows the shape of an emerging filmmaker.

A short about the weight of attention, what it feels like to be truly seen, and what that does to a person. The Indian trio behind Eyes on Me uses AI to render the experience of being watched with unusual emotional precision.

She could not see. But the desert could.

The story of a drone who learns to become itself. #shortfilm #aivideo #scifi

A music video about carrying a heart that feels too heavy to love, for anyone who still hopes for the person or moment that makes them feel light again.

A film that says the quiet part loud: the complicated, often uncomfortable position of being someone who makes things with AI and calls it art. Mind Wank wins the self-awareness prize at Gen:48 2nd edition by turning the critique into the work itself.

In a world torn apart by conflict between humans and machines, a robot named Adam harbors a singular dream: peaceful coexistence. A visually striking animated short that won Best Film, Best Narrative Short, and Best Animated Short at the 2024 AI International Film Festival.

Inspired by the mythical city from Ambrose Bierce and True Detective, Carcosa is a horror short that treats the AI frame as an entrance to a place you cannot leave. Phil Langer (thebytepit) builds a film where the uncanny valley is the destination.

Winner of Best Craft at the inaugural Gen:48, Under Siege demonstrates that technical excellence and speed are not mutually exclusive. Abdalla stages a siege scenario with AI-generated effects that hold up to scrutiny.

A hermit who chose solitude for reasons the film slowly reveals is drawn back into conflict in this action short by Finnish filmmaker Teemu Ketola. A deceptively simple premise executed with visual confidence.

A short about the concept of home, what makes a place one, what it means to lose it, what it means to find it somewhere unexpected. Ezra Li made this in 48 hours and arrived at something that resonates far beyond its constraints.