# Orange

- Date: 2019
- Type: film
- Credit: Alejandro Matamala Ortiz
- Genre: Experimental
- Artists: [Alejandro Matamala Ortiz](https://aifilmhistory.org/artist/alejandro-matamala-ortiz)
- Made with: NVIDIA SPADE (via Runway)
- Post: https://x.com/c_valenzuelab/status/2093760018457764350
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/orange-matamala

A twenty-second clip of oranges, generated in 2019 by Alejandro Matamala Ortiz, Runway's co-founder and chief design officer. Cristóbal Valenzuela surfaced it in August 2026, calling it the first-ever AI video.

The model underneath is SPADE, the NVIDIA research behind GauGAN. It was built for stills; video meant feeding it frame after frame and accepting the flicker. That makes Orange a sibling of [Jon Warlick's GauGAN experiment](https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/gaugan-warlick/) from the same year: two people, unaware of each other, coaxing motion out of the same still-image model by brute force. The people who built the tools that dominate the later years were, in 2019, hand-feeding frames into a still-image model. It could move, barely.

Links:
- Watch the clip (X, via Cristóbal Valenzuela): https://x.com/c_valenzuelab/status/2093760018457764350
- SPADE paper — Semantic Image Synthesis with Spatially-Adaptive Normalization (arXiv): https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07291
- NVIDIA SPADE on GitHub: https://github.com/NVlabs/SPADE
- SPADE-COCO on Runway: https://app.runwayml.com/models/runway/SPADE-COCO
- Alejandro Matamala Ortiz: https://www.matamala.info/

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/orange-matamala
Era: 2015-2021 · Before the Dawn
Last updated: 2026-09-23