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The Poet & The Knight - AI Music Video A dual-narrative short film exploring the weight we carry after heartbreak, and the relief of letting someone back in. Two parallel stories: Jesse, a man navigating the real world, and The Knight — a visual metaphor for his inner world, armored and heavy. As Jesse opens up to someone new, the armor lifts. Made entirely with AI. Selected as a finalist at Harnessing the Unmade, London Design Festival 2026. Music by The Solecism.
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What If: The Adventure of Tonie & Erique Series Description: Tonie and Erique are two broke, unemployed idiots who somehow land a new job every single day. The catch is they always get hired, and they're always the wrong people for the job. Each episode follows the same simple loop: they find work, mess it up in the dumbest way possible, get fired by the end, and right before the episode closes Erique already has the next terrible idea lined up for tomorrow. Pilot Description: The pilot kicks things off with the two of them trying their luck as chefs at a rundown restaurant. Along the way it also sets up who these guys actually are, including the fact that Erique has been crashing at Tonie's house way longer than he should have. This episode is meant to show the format the whole series will run on: they get the job, things go sideways, they get fired, and by the end they're already onto the next dumb idea. Where the series goes next: I want to push the comedy harder as the series continues and dig into jobs that sound ridiculous but are still real jobs people actually have. Each episode is basically one day in their lives for now, though later episodes might stretch to a day or two depending on what the job calls for. Episode 2 is already teased at the end of the pilot: they're trying to become firefighters next, which honestly writes itself in terms of how much they can screw that up. Character: Tonie https://cantina.com/i/xe0tl Erique https://cantina.com/i/ukgo4
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"The Gift" A fashion editorial by Shadra Ali Fashion piece, photography, Indonesian history, this project lives where all three meet. What drew me to these four pieces wasn't just their beauty rather it was the honesty of not knowing. History has gaps. Provenance reads "acquired via trade" or "origin unknown." We will never truly know what crossed whose hands, what sat in whose court, what a 13th-century Javanese king actually looked like or owned. And I find that gap more interesting than any fact So I asked one question: what if these four pieces never made it to the Museum? What if, somewhere between being made and being found, they passed through one court first? What if Raden Wijaya wore them, not because he took them, but because the world brought them to him? Nobody knows what he actually looked like. No portraits, no photographs, just artistic interpretations and imagination. Raden Wijaya was a name I learned in school before I understood what empires meant. He was a chapter in a textbook, a founder, a footnote. It took years to realize he was something much larger, a man who built the most powerful maritime kingdom Southeast Asia has ever seen, from nothing. So I built him from scratch, iterating until the face had the right weight. Then I treated the rest like a real editorial shoot: obsessing over framing, light, and what each piece deserved as its own moment. One light source. Heavy grain. Deep red. I wanted the images to feel found, not made. The original art piece: - Diadem: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/38435 - Arm Band : https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39426 (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39426)- Bracelet: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547376 (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547376)- Jewelry: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/256975 Social Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdAjPjSkxSU/?img_index=1
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This is my first experience using generative AI video with Seedance 2.5. Thank you Capcut for giving the opportunity. I'm so into cars and fast paced action scenes that gives me adrenaline. This video is made out of my pure obsession with speed, cars, and adrenaline. Social Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DcMeLmMShRQ/
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