A few months ago, my friend and musician Daniel Damborghini, with whom I had collaborated before, asked me to create visuals for several beats he composed with my brother Chapis Lasca.
Some of those tracks felt so cinematic that I proposed turning them into a mockumentary: a modern, dystopian, apocalyptic version of Powaqqatsi, Koyaanisqatsi or Baraka —but built entirely with AI-generated imagery and video.
I developed the idea from scratch, imagining impossible shots reflecting today’s global issues:
The goal was to build a narrative as coherent as possible, not just an experiment with tools.
The images were mainly generated with:
For upscaling:
For animation:
Post-production fixes included Kling 2.1, Nano Banana, and Topaz Video AI / Starlight to clean problematic clips.
The process lasted two months, during which I tested almost every image, video, and voice generation tool currently available.
The project was produced by Daniel Damborghini, with original music by Daniel Damborghini & Chapis Lasca.
Their soundtrack became the backbone and emotional pulse of the film.
As a filmmaker, I’ve always sought new ways to tell stories.
AI gave me the chance to build one that I could never have created otherwise.
👉 WHAT REMAINS – Full Film on Vimeo
