BRIDGES
From Artefact AI Film Festival, on YouTube, by the link its maker gave the festival
AI-made Made with AI, as its festival says: “The 2026 edition of the Artefact AI Film Festival — an international competition for short films made with generative AI, organised by Artefact with mk2.” AI-made films · What this means · Its maker can have it taken off.
By Yevhen Fedorov, as its festival's page names them. This site's record of that page; the title and description are as the page gives them.
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About this film
On a bright tropical island a boy lives alone, inventing games and imaginary friends — he is happy, but there is no one to share that happiness with. When he sees a girl on the neighbouring island, absorbed in her own reflection, he falls in love and begins to build a bridge toward her. Every attempt collapses, and with each one he gives more: he dismantles his own castle, fells his palms, strips his island bare. When the girl carelessly drops a few rotten twigs on her shore, he takes it for reciprocity and builds more desperately still — but the bridge falls for the last time, and she walks away without looking back. Spent, the colour drained from his eyes, he sees a new girl smiling and waving at him from another shore — he tries to get up, and cannot. The camera rises over hundreds of islands and hundreds of bridges: the fragile ones fall, while those built from both sides meet in the middle.
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