Spiritus in Machina: AI generated short film

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Logline: Hiding his dead brother’s consciousness within his ‘Artificial Ego’ implant, a space magnate returns to the underground lunar city of their common past, reuniting with the woman they both loved.

This is a pilot teaser for the grand narrative of Hex Space, a story about the protagonists and events that defined a time when nothing was more valuable in space than space itself. Hex Space is an original work in progress, created by Greek filmmaker Nikolaos Stampoulopoulos. The project aspires to evolve into a science fiction franchise that will include books, games, a TV series (with possible spinoffs) and various forms of online content.

All characters in this video are AI generated. Any resemblance with existing persons is unintentional and coincidental. Generative AI tools used in the making of this video: Midjourney, Leonardo, Freepik (Flux 1.1), Kling, Runway, Luma Labs Dream Machine, Eleven Labs, Udio, Videoproc, Photoshop. Edited and graded in DaVinci Resolve.

“Spiritus in Machina” has been selected to participate in three international film festivals that either include a section or focus entirely on AI generated short films:

  • Symbiotic Film Festival (Kiev, Ukraine)
  • CinemaZERO (Trento, Italy)
  • CineTech Film Festival (Opole, Poland)

Aftermath – Theia’s Monologue

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Theia is one of the protagonists in an epic sci-fi narrative set in the near future of the ‘Solar Era’. Where nothing is more valuable in space, than space itself.

Following the parallel stories of the enigmatic Hex Space founding father and his successors, this is a work in progress, combining AI tools with CGI and more traditional methods of audiovisual storytelling. Created by filmmaker Nikolaos Stampoulopoulos. All characters and locations in this video are AI generated.

https://hex-space.com/home

Images generated by Midjourney and Leonardo, animation by Leonardo and Runway, voice over synthesized at Eleven Labs. Google Bard and ChatGPT 3.5 assisted in the writing of the monologue. Visual ID created in Blender. Video edited and graded in Da Vinci Resolve.