Sivan Miller's Work | ContraWork by Sivan MillerSivan Miller
Photographer / Director / AI / VFX
I made this Cybernetic music visualizer with Codex ubway Flashback is a short cinematic piece made entirely with AI. There’s no camera, no crew and no location, yet it holds up as real footage.
The goal was a moment that feels half-remembered. Commuters drift past in soft focus, and one figure holds still in the crowd. The warm, faded palette and shallow depth of field are meant to pull the viewer into that half-remembered space.
I came to AI video after 19 years as a fashion and editorial photographer (Vogue, Elle, Numéro, Dior at the Met Gala), and that background drives everything here:
Lighting: practical-feeling overheads and natural falloff, not the flat look typical of AI footage.
Lens behavior: believable focus, blur and depth, as if shot on a real lens.
Color: a film-inspired grade with a nostalgic, analog feel.
Direction: deliberate pacing and composition, treated like a real shoot.
The full pipeline, from concept and prompting through generation, editing and grade, was done by me.