The short film Echoed in Water has been selected to participate in two major international festivals. The world premiere will take place at the Over The Real Festival in Lucca, Italy, where it has been named one of 13 finalists for the top award.
The film will also be presented in Venice at the BAIFF – Burano Artificial Intelligence Film Festival, Europe’s first festival dedicated to AI-based cinema.
Echoed in Water offers a visually reimagined interpretation of the 15th-century painting The Saint Elizabeth’s Day Flood. By blending AI-generated imagery inspired by the painting with contemporary video footage, the film disrupts conventional perceptions of time: Gothic churches stand alongside glass skyscrapers, villagers paddle in boats beside androids, and murky floodwaters surge through both medieval towns and modern cityscapes.
Through these surprising visual juxtapositions, the film seeks to reflect the cyclical violence of climate disasters, while questioning how technological progress has not only failed to protect us from nature’s forces but, in some ways, has exacerbated the crisis.
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View the work on the International AI Filmmakers Community: https://shaike.ai/echoed-in-water/
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The original painting The Saint Elizabeth’s Day Flood: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/The-Saint-Elizabeth-s-Day-Flood--f9caaa65ebb369e1731f57e9b4c97e3d
Over The Real Festival, Lucca: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOB1_fOiBga/
