Er Loop

A nineteen-minute dark comedy after Plato's Myth of Er. A man dies on his couch, is offered every possible life and the task of choosing one, and takes his time. Marco Magario wrote, directed and produced it entirely himself and plays the lead, casting his own likeness inside a generated world, as he did in Fractal and Holy Grail. He calls it his most ambitious film yet.

It premiered live on The AI Live Show with his brother Chris Branch, followed by a breakdown of the frame-by-frame approach behind his photorealistic style, how he directs himself as a performer, and what it takes to hold that level of realism across a whole film.