While many in the creative world hedge or hide their use of generative AI, Italian director/composer Alessandro Bavari runs full-speed in the other direction, embracing the media’s warts as well as it’s wonders. [Watch]
Vitor Teixeira, a Portugal-based senior 3D designer at NotReal, just dropped us his latest personal project, a richly tactile experiment he describes as the intersection of “human art direction and machine learning.” [Watch]
In a straight-up weaponization of AI against it’s creators, director Chris Boyle and the crew at London mixed-media studio Private Island drop a satirical, three-minute boy band take-down of tech billionaires. [Watch]
Working thru French prodco Wilders, directors Benjamin Marchal, Nicolas Duval, and Paris post house Digital District channel our cinephile memories into the opening title sequence for the 2026 Young Director Awards. [Watch]
Director/designer Sijin Liu, whose breakout Siri Lee music video we featured on the cover of Stash 175, merges symbolism and surrealism into an eerie and enigmatic film for French-Taiwanese singer Bai yun. [Watch]
Heart-tugging animated lottery spots may have hit an apex with this classic, but this new campaign from Laundry Studios thru Wunderman-Thompson keeps all the emotion while redefining the pipeline for the age of AI production. [Watch]
