# Dreamcatching

- Date: 2022-03-03
- Type: film
- Credit: Magdalena Bay
- Genre: Music Video, Experimental
- Artists: [Magdalena Bay](https://aifilmhistory.org/artist/magdalena-bay)
- Made with: VQGAN+CLIP, GAN
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXLCHvRsgRQ
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/magdalena-bay-dreamcatching

One of the earliest music videos built on AI image synthesis. Directed by visual artist Felix Green, 'Dreamcatching' runs real live-action footage of the duo — Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin — through VQGAN+CLIP and GAN networks, letting the algorithm interpret and smear the imagery to the song's lyrics. The result looks, deliberately, like a computer's interpretation of dreams: melting, hallucinatory, months ahead of the wave. Proof that before text-to-video existed, artists were already directing neural networks frame by frame.

Links:
- FLOOD Magazine: https://floodmagazine.com/103386/watch-magdalena-bay-dreamcatching/

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/magdalena-bay-dreamcatching
Era: 2022 · The Dawn
Last updated: 2026-09-23