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One-take cinematic AI film — Istanbul from a seagull's point of view.
This is a seagull's flight through Istanbul, from a rooftop over the old city straight to a passenger ferry crossing the Bosphorus, without any cuts or transitions. I wanted to show the city the way it actually feels to live in it — not the postcard version, but the daily rhythm of ferries, simit, and the seagulls that follow both.
As the bird moves from the rooftops down toward the water, the city shifts with it — quiet narrow streets give way to the open Bosphorus, ferries, and the small, familiar ritual every local knows: someone on deck breaks off a piece of simit, and within seconds a seagull is there.
Animated in Seedance 2.5.
If you're visiting Istanbul, this is my real advice: grab a simit, get on a ferry, and feed the seagulls. Skip the guidebook moment — this is the one that actually feels like the city.
#Istanbul #AIFilmmaking #TravelTips
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Lol😆, That's kinda nice and funny
Well done
If you ever come to Istanbul, you definitely have to try this. It’s more fun when you experience it yourself 😅
That will make sense a lot, you will be the one to welcome me to istanbul 😊
I gonna kill em all 😊
Haha, enjoy your trip if you make it! 😊
Wow that's crazy
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Interesting video
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 🤍
This is nice, i love it
Thank youuu! 🥹 So glad you like it! 🫶
Love this 👍
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Title: FOLLOWER OF
FOLLOWER OF wakes a painting nobody signed. "Christ's Descent into Hell" (The Met, 26.244) is by an anonymous follower of Hieronymus Bosch, sold as a Bosch in Prague in 1926 and still unattributed. I chose it because I love Bosch, and because a painting by a follower asks the question the whole panel is about: who follows whom.
For a hundred seconds the painting comes to life without ever leaving the surface of the paint. A lantern wakes it. Light breaks the gate of hell. Adam and Eve beg with empty hands, the saved climb the stairs, Saint Christopher slips away from the devil's army with the child on his shoulders, Judas will not let go of the bag, Sisyphus keeps climbing, and the ones who stay behind keep living by the giant head. The ending comes from the Met's own technical notes: the blue corner of the sky was painted over fire. The painter changed his mind.
Every shot starts from a crop of the Met's open access image: no new figures, no new colors, only what the painter left. Each crop was upscaled with Magnific Precision Upscaler, animated with Kling 3.0 Pro, with prompts refined by Claude Opus 5 inside FLORA. The narration is Gemini TTS, the score is ElevenLabs Music: a sixteenth century Franco-Flemish consort reimagined for a painting of hell. The whole pipeline ran from Claude Code on the desktop through FLORA's MCP: the agent built the graph, ran the models and kept the production ledger, and every creative decision stayed with me. Structure, shot list and sound design follow a kishotenketsu: the turn is not a fight, it is a painter changing his mind.
Christ's Descent into Hell, Follower of Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, second quarter of the 16th century). Oil on two oak planks, 53.3 x 116.8 cm. The Met, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926 (26.244), on view in Gallery 613. A panoramic hell where Christ breaks the gate to free the just: Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, David and the patriarchs climb a ruined tower, Sisyphus heaves his stone up the rock on the right, and Judas is dragged back. Paint analysis shows the orange of the burning sky continuing under the blue in the upper left corner: more of the sky was originally on fire. Public Domain, Open Access.
Original artwork (The Met, Open Access): https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435725
