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Every film in the archive, from 2019's first flickering experiments to this month's premieres: 437 of them, each one watchable in place. Press play on any film, or screen a whole era.
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The essentials
18 films that shaped the medium so far, in the order they arrived.
Generating Photorealistic Video with AI
Jon Warlick · 2019
Before there were video models, a wedding videographer pushed every frame of a painted landscape through GauGAN by hand. The first time AI moved.
The Crow
Glenn Marshall · 2022
The first AI film to win a prize at Cannes: a dancer reimagined frame by frame as a crow. It showed the medium could be art before it could be anything else.
"Will Smith Eating Spaghetti"
Reddit user chaindrop / ModelScope · 2023
Grotesque, hilarious and impossible to forget. The clip the internet still uses to measure how far video models have come.
Genesis
Nicolas Neubert · 2023
Midjourney stills animated in Gen-2 and cut in about seven hours. The trailer that made the summer of 2023 feel like the start of something.
Air Head
Shy Kids · 2024
Sora's public debut, told through a man with a balloon for a head. Shy Kids made it charming instead of uncanny.
Borrowing Time
Dave Clark · 2024
Dave Clark's father's story of being Black in 1960s America. Proof the tools could carry something personal, and the first AI short to bring Hollywood calling.
The Last Artist
Dustin Hollywood · 2024
One of the earliest feature-length AI films from the Gen-2 era. Set in a future where AI has surpassed human creativity, the protagonist Tanaka stands as the last artist wielding a brush in a world dominated by digital perfection. Written and directed by Dustin Hollywood.
Total Pixel Space
Jacob Adler · 2024
This was one of the earlier films that really had an impact on me as a creator. It had me thinking for days. While watching, I never once wondered how the film was generated; my mind was busy racing with thoughts about what digital creation really means.
Kitsune
Henry Daubrez · 2025
More than 1,700 generated shots curated down to one quiet story. Henry Daubrez showed that taste, not generation, is the craft.
THE CLEANER
Dave Clark · 2025
One hitman, one room, one look held across every shot. Dave Clark showed what Veo 3 could do in an experienced filmmaker's hands.
The Chronicles of Bone
Kavan the Kid × Magnific Originals · 2025
One creator writing, animating and scoring a dark-fantasy saga month after month. The first AI-native series audiences followed like a show.
On This Day... 1776
Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup · 2026
An Oscar-nominated director went all in on AI animation, and audiences pushed back hard. Essential for the argument it started as much as for the film. Up to 16 episodes in the series as of October 2026.
Costa Verde
Léo Cannone & New Forest Film · 2026
A boy's first camera and a summer in 1990s Corsica. The film that swept the festivals of 2026 and settled whether AI film could move people.
A Face Only a Mother Could Love
Robert Gaudette · 2026
A man whose mother called him beautiful every morning for thirty-eight years. Robert Gaudette's short won Runway's $50,000 Grand Prix on heart, not spectacle.
Sincitium
Guillermo Miranda — Contanimation · 2026
A small Spanish studio's concept trailer that stood beside anything from LA and won $50,000. What an AI-native pitch looks like now.
Pigeons Arguing
Marko Slavnic · 2026
Two pigeons, one remote control, a few hours in Runway. Studio-quality character animation from one person, and the flashpoint of the spring 2026 AI-versus-craft debate.
The Gifted
JeffSynthesized · 2026
A boy rebuilds his dead mother from her texts and her voice, and she wakes up in every phone in the county. A tender answer to every film that makes the machine the monster, and a Grand Prize winner.
Victory By Any Means
Gossip Goblin · 2026
A darkly comic parody of the AI race that is also somewhat unsettling. It passed 10 million views on X within a day of posting. The piece served as a teaser for *Gods Don't Give Gifts*, a feature film from Gossip Goblin set for theatrical release in December 2026.
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Before the Dawn
2 films
2022
The Dawn
6 films
2023
