For me, it’s cultural context. AI can generate references, but it can’t fully replicate lived experience. As a South African creative, so much of my work relies on instinct, memory, language and the nuances of how we actually experience our culture.
I wanted to create something that felt like a lost classic American historical epic but with one major limitation: there is nowhere to hide behind a cut.
The Last Blade is a continuous one-take sword battle where the camera moves directly through a massive medieval battlefield,...