AI Films

Since late 2022, I've been integrating emerging AI tools into my filmmaking, exploring how they can open up new creative possibilities. These films capture both my excitement about the technology and my ongoing questions about its implications. Together, they form a timeline spanning from December 2022—from Google Labs' Disco Diffusion through a deep dive into ComfyUI alongside releases of other video tools like Runway and Veo, to more recent work combining multiple tools in Higgsfield. Tracking the rapid evolution of AI video alongside my own experiments with the medium.
Four of my AI films have been acquired by the BFI National Archive as examples of AI experimental film, a recognition of work that sits between commercial practice and creative noodling.

‘Tap Tap Tipety Tap’
3840 × 2160    2minutes 10 seconds
A woman accidently turns herself into a homogenous lump and is harvested by Lucky Cat to be sold at the LLM supermarket. The film addressed the changing human psyche under later capitalism, where emotions are commodified as brand content, identities flatten into meme like simplifications, and our data becomes a tradable commodity. It is also upbeat and cheerful.

‘The Past Is Never Simply Past’ Length 04:30 Date of creation: 05/2024 Dimension: 3840 x 2160 Software: Comfy UI, Premiere, Suno, Archive footage
The Past is Never Really Past" explores the complex interplay between humanity, technology, and the environment. The film creatively reimagines the lives of 1950s factory workers, 1960s Sony workers in Japan, and features an interview with sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke from the 1970s. It blends archival-style black-and-white AI-generated footage with vivid, painted depictions of people and birds. This visual contrast highlights the tension between historical Keynesian industrial ambitions and today's post-Fordist technological advancements, marked by the rise of AI, which surpasses human labour in speed and efficiency

What We Gave, Now Re-designed (2025)  Digital video, 3:39 mins Resolution: 3080 × 3025
Materials: Photography, Suno, Runway ML, Botika, Veo 3, GPT, After Effects, Premiere

What We Gave, Now Redesigned (2025) continues my exploration of authorship and agency within systems of automation. The work takes the form of an AI generated pop video and song charting the formation of Luva-Land, a speculative brand and ongoing solo project.

By using tools such as Suno, Runway, and Botika in place of a creative team, I wanted to test whether it is possible to find authenticity or autonomy within systems designed to optimise and replace human labour. The video merges personal imagery, from a fashion shoot with myself as the model with algorithmically generated doubles that adopt my clothing, posture and gestures, versions of myself that perform without me. I see it as both a critique and experiment in what's currently possible, the implication of the job losses that are implicit with this technology is terrifying but the sudden access to any skill without the investment of time has the potential to be liberating and exciting.

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