# The Crow

- Date: 2022-09
- Type: film
- Credit: Glenn Marshall
- Artists: [Glenn Marshall](https://aifilmhistory.org/artist/glenn-marshall)
- Made with: CLIP-guided diffusion
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPXo3yOtnZY
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/the-crow

Winner of the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival in 2022, 'The Crow' was the first AI-generated film to take a prize at Cannes. Glenn Marshall found his inspiration in 'PAINTED', a viral 2012 choreography short, and fed frames of its dancer, Dorotea Saykaly, into OpenAI's CLIP as image references, so the neural network reinterpreted her movement frame by frame as a crow in a desolate landscape.

A fascinating and thought-provoking glimpse into what was ahead, and an important milestone on the path to a new era of content production. The video also walks through how it was made.

Links:
- Making of on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPXo3yOtnZY

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/the-crow
Era: 2022 · The Dawn
Last updated: 2026-09-12