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Given Again
2023 · Experimental · 8 min 36 sec
A painter becomes absorbed by the exposed roots of a fallen tree. As her fixation grows, the world around her begins to fracture, turning a search for stable patterns into an encounter with the limits of perception. Michelle Nova Luna stars in Jake Oleson’s exploration of reality and release.
- Creator
- Jake Oleson
- Release date
- March 22, 2023
- Runtime
- 8 min 36 sec
- Genre
- Experimental
- Genre context
- Editorial experimental grouping based on the filmmaker’s exploration of perception and deliberately fractured NeRF environments.
- Viewing source
- Jake Oleson on Vimeo ↗
- Format
- AI-generated / AI-assisted film
- AI production
- Written, directed, edited, and scored by Jake Oleson, with Michelle Nova Luna, color by Jared Rosenthal, and mix by Aneek Thapar. The official release credits Luma AI. Oleson’s own site explains how machine-learning NeRF scans and their deliberately fractured artifacts shaped the environments and the character’s destabilizing perception.
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