MONSTERS

A four-minute Halloween film told as interviews with monsters, which turns into a film about domestic violence and the children who live with it, asking who the real monsters are. PROMPTR made it with NO MORE, the global campaign against domestic and sexual violence, and it ends by pointing viewers to the NO MORE Global Directory of support services. Kling sponsored it.

Everything in it is AI-generated. The team spent two weeks iterating across models on the start frames for the world and its monsters, then generated the interviews in Kling 4.0, and director Simon Meyer said the realism came from not giving the monsters lines. Each prompt carried talking points, "NOT a script," asking the character to answer in his own words, search for them and improvise, which he compared to directing real people on set. Kling 4.0 Flash made it quick to generate many takes and choose the best. Lubbertus Mueller-Frick was lead AI artist, with Ciro Kavouras and producer Benjamin L. Schiller.