AI-generated stills for the imaginary monster narrative in MONSTER

 

MONSTER is an experimental video essay that uses AI-generated imagery, found footage, documentary fragments and tactile stop-motion to explore how Western culture creates, fears, consumes and reanimates its monsters. Pinocchio and Frankenstein serve as guiding mythologies through which the film looks at contemporary anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence, control, projection and agency.

 

Work-in-Progress Clips

Five short experimental test clips.
Each clip corresponds to a different visual register used in the final film.

 

Found Footage Essay · Act 1: Illustrative & Recognizable

A clear, linear montage of classic Pinocchio and Frankenstein adaptations.
The AI’s analytical voice-over still appears coherent and authoritative.

 

Found Footage Essay · Act 2: Collage & Friction

The visual register shifts into collision and simultaneity — multiple
Pinocchio and Frankenstein variants overlapping in a charged, unstable image field.

 

Found Footage Essay · Act 3: Poetic Dissolution

Imagery dissolves into a fluid hybrid organism — forms blend, melt, and recombine into a poetic instability.

 

Imagined AI Narrative · Generated Images

Early AI-generated transformations exploring hybrid beings, metamorphosis, and digital tactility.

 

Revolt & Unmasking · Documentary & Stop-Motion

Hybrid stop-motion matter invades the image, fusing with documentary bodies to reclaim space and agency.