The Willows
A 31-minute cosmic horror film adapted from Algernon Blackwood's novella The Willows. Two men canoe into a flooded delta on the Danube in 1901 and slowly realize the place is aware of them. Directed by Forrest Rice over more than a year, it was built from AI-generated footage across several video models, including Seedance 2.5 and Veo 3.1, then cut in Premiere Pro like a traditional film, shot by shot, with the sound shaped by hand.
Made with Seedance 2.5, Chronos, Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, GPT Image 2, GPT Image 2.5, GPT-6 Astra, Nano Banana 2, Nano Banana 2.1