That's a stunner. My AI video essay "The Cinema That Never Was" has been selected as one of the 10 finalists of the Reply AI Film Festival, held during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival this September – out of 2,500 submissions from 67 countries. 😲 Thank you, jury! aiff.reply.com

Happy that two of my films have made the finalist cut at the Neu Wave Films+AI Film Festival 2025: the psychological horror short "Unblind" (2024) and the video essay "The Cinema That Never Was" (2025) 🤩 Exciting to be among such a stacked line-up of amazingly talented AI filmmakers: neuwavefest.com

The MetaMorph AI Film Award team interviewed some of this year's finalists and winners. In my interview about my AI concept trailer "Copernicus", I talk about my approach to AI and filmmaking and the new ecosystem that emerges around AI filmmaking: metamorph-award.com/post/mark-wa...

Last month, my AI concept trailer "Copernicus" won second place in the "AI Trailer" category at the 2025 MetaMorph AI Film Award. Now I have received the actual award, my first-ever physical representation of an AI film award! It's so beautiful (and photogenic 😆)!

So honored that "The Cinema That Never Was" was recognized last weekend in the "Himalayas Edition" of the AI Film Awards at the Dhruma Film Festival 2025, a three-day festival at the UNESCO World Heritage Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Station — just a stone’s throw from Mount Everest!

Pure cinema. "The Cinema That Never Was" on the big screen at the Escape.ai screening at "AI on the Lot," the largest AI film conference! 🤩 Thanks, John Gaeta, for capturing this moment!

1/5: There's certainly a deeper connection between the power of cinema and the passion myth that Easter preserved—but the release of my video essay "The Cinema That Never Was" this weekend simply coincides with that.

Cinema is my language, my mission, my craft. That's why these two nominations at the [ esc ] Awards 2025 mean so much to me. These categories beautifully capture what I strive for in my work. And standing among such visionary AI filmmakers and their mind-blowing films is truly inspiring.

Amazing! My horror short "Unblind" (2024) made it into the Top 25 Finalists in the "Narrative" category of the second season of the Project Odyssey AI Film Competition, out of 833 submissions in the "Narrative" category and 4,593 (!) submissions overall.

Super proud to see "Wings" (2025) placing as a Finalist in the second season of Project0dyssey AI Film Competition, catching an "Honorable Mention" in the "Narrative" category. "Wings" was entirely shot in Luma's new level-3 AI video model Ray2, using only text-to-video.

This: "To my fellow artists: embrace the unknown. Experiment, explore, and be curious." 💯 Great piece by Dave Clark on the power of AI to supercharge our visions and creative processes.

"Wings" (2025) is now not only featured in the CuriousRefuge AI Film Gallery, but also received their special "Chester's Choice" award, which they give to their most favorite AI films: curiousrefuge.com/ai-film-gall...

Part III of my curated list of AI movies with "beautiful" storytelling. "Beautiful" in the sense that the storytelling deserves recognition and applause because it is heartfelt, exciting, funny, dark, complex, or just plain beautiful.

Part II of my curated list of AI movies with "beautiful" storytelling. "Beautiful" in the sense that the storytelling deserves recognition and applause because it is heartfelt, exciting, funny, dark, complex, or just plain beautiful.

Part I of my curated list of AI movies with "beautiful" storytelling. "Beautiful" in the sense that the storytelling deserves recognition and applause because it is heartfelt, exciting, funny, dark, complex, or just plain beautiful.

These are two of my extended shot collections created for "Dear Dad" (2025) by Jason Zada—the "Puppet River Rescue" and the "Expressionist Firemancer Apprentice Training." 😊 Both feature variations and experimental shots and are intentionally loosely edited to provide material for the final film.

"Wings" – shot entirely with Luma's new AI video model Ray2. Are you ready for Angels vs. Cthulhu?

It was a blast working with such talented AI artists over the holidays on "Dear Dad," Secret Level's proof of concept that showcases the versatility of AI in animation. The movie premiered at the Digital Hollywood panel at CES 2025.

Imagine AI advances so rapidly that in five years it’s better at everything we currently do—researching, problem-solving, imagining, creating. Now it’s sitting there with a blinking cursor, ready to ask us: "What do YOU want to create?" Let's be ready to answer that call.

My AI filmmaking journey began a year ago with "Beauty Will Save the World," my submission to Runway's very first GEN:48 AI Film Competition in October 2023. The little film about a rainbow fox upending all the bad in the world even made it into the round of the 65 finalists. 🦊🌈