Dreams
Personal project • 2026 – ongoing
The challenge
Night thoughts, written down on a blank page, turned into short surreal films starring me and my cat.
Some nights the thoughts don't stop. A therapist once suggested writing them all down on a blank sheet, without judging them: the worries, the absurd ideas, the things I never say out loud. Dreams starts from those pages.
Each note becomes a vertical film of a few seconds. I am always the protagonist, sometimes with Virgola, my cat. We end up in calm, clean, almost elegant places where something does not add up: an armchair that swallows me, a star that slips out of my hands, a keyboard I have been typing on for days. Nobody speaks, there is no music. Only the sounds of the scene, and a face that never reacts.
The anxiety lives in the details. The still camera, the muted colours, a light that never dramatises: everything is designed to make the absurd look normal, the way it does at three in the morning.
- Sector
- Short-form video — personal project
- Duration
- 2026 – ongoing
- Team
- Me, Virgola and two AI models in conversation
- Tools
- Generative AI for image and video, prompt design, post-production
My role
- Concept and writing, from my own night notes
- Art direction: framing, light, colour and sound
- Prompt design and direction of the AI
- Editing and post-production
Every frame is the result of a conversation, not of a single command.
Talking to machines
Dreams is also an experiment in a new kind of craft: dialogue. Behind each film there are two AI models that talk to each other — one reasons, plans and corrects, the other draws and moves — and me in the middle, asking, rejecting, insisting.
Nothing comes out right the first time. A face that is not mine, a camera that moves when it should stand still, a gesture too fast or too slow. Every film went through dozens of exchanges: studying the framing of a reference, measuring light and colour, deciding what the viewer should feel at second three and at second seven. Along the way a visual bible took shape, a set of rules every new episode has to respect.
What matters is not the machine. It is knowing what to ask, recognising when something feels true, and having the patience to get there. The AI brings speed; the eye, the taste and the memories are still mine.
What I learned: Writing a good prompt is like directing an actor who has never met you: you have to describe not only what happens, but what it means. The more personal the brief, the less generic the result.
