More polished than most AI video, but still carries the hallmarks of slop, and is such a hard watch that it is difficult to call it the future of moviemaking.
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Nightborne
Short Film · 2026 · 13 min · Barley Studios, Neill Blomkamp
This fully AI sci-fi film by Barley Studios, shot in 4K in the visual tradition of Neill Blomkamp, follows a journalist who begins receiving anonymous drives containing classified military files revealing a program where wounded soldiers declared dead are covertly recovered.
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