🎬 WHAT REMAINS – AI Film
A few months ago, my friend and musician Daniel Damborghini, with whom I had collaborated before, asked me to create visuals for several beats he composed with my brother Chapis Lasca.
Some of those tracks felt so cinematic that I proposed turning them into a mockumentary: a modern, dystopian, apocalyptic version of Powaqqatsi, Koyaanisqatsi or Baraka —but built entirely with AI-generated imagery and video.
🌍 Concept
I developed the idea from scratch, imagining impossible shots reflecting today’s global issues:
- Environment
- Technological failures
- Digital dependence
- Wars and migrations
- Health and social control
- Artificial Intelligence itself
The goal was to build a narrative as coherent as possible, not just an experiment with tools.
🛠 Tools & Workflow
The images were mainly generated with:
- Midjourney → more artistic and dramatic
- Flux (ComfyUI) → limited but highly prompt-responsive
- Gemini via Whisk → more realistic but less expressive
For upscaling:
- Magnific (until credits ran out)
- Topaz Gigapixel AI & Topaz Photo AI
For animation:
- Early tests: Moonvalley Marey (inconsistent, even with motion transfer from phone refs)
- Main tool: Seedance Pro on Krea (+ Seedance in Higgsfield and OpenArt)
- Additional tests: Veo3 (Flow), Runway, Luma Labs Dream Machine, Wan 2.2
Post-production fixes included Kling 2.1, Nano Banana, and Topaz Video AI / Starlight to clean problematic clips.
🎨 Postproduction
- Editing & grading: DaVinci Resolve
- Voiceover: a custom-designed AI voice (no gender/age), created with ElevenLabs
The process lasted two months, during which I tested almost every image, video, and voice generation tool currently available.
🎶 Music
The project was produced by Daniel Damborghini, with original music by Daniel Damborghini & Chapis Lasca.
Their soundtrack became the backbone and emotional pulse of the film.
✨ Conclusion
As a filmmaker, I’ve always sought new ways to tell stories.
AI gave me the chance to build one that I could never have created otherwise.
🔗 Watch the Film
👉 WHAT REMAINS – Full Film on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/1115232153
