recursive hills

FILMS
Written By V C

Recursive Hills | AI Short Film – Runway GEN48: Official Finalist

Created in 48 hours for the RunwayML GEN:48 AI Film Festival 2025 , this project blends state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models with analog photography.

Production Method

  • Maria’s visuals: original analog photographs animated with AI.

  • Environments & abstract imagery: directly generated via AI models.

  • Voices, sound design & musical score: 100 % AI-generated.

Synopsis

When Maria leaves, an AI model is tasked to approximate her presence—testing parameters for laughter, silence and memory. The experiment exposes both the power and the gaps of synthetic remembrance, mapping the landscapes grief carves within us .

GEN48 Themes

Rolling Hills | Unmade Bed | Lonely Creature

Gear & Models

Runway Gen-4 · Midjourney v7 · ElevenLabs

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