# Serug 99

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.” ([its page](https://artefact-ai-film-festival.com/), read 2026-11-12).

By epistle machine j, as [Artefact AI Film Festival](https://artefact-ai-film-festival.com/gallery) names them.

In a dystopian surveillance state, a frail man's routine confession triggers a government pursuit that turns his private transgression into public entertainment and financial punishment for everyone around him.

Serug 99 was created entirely from generative audiovisual source material. All moving images were generated using Seedance 2.5. Character voices, vocal processing, and sound effects were created using ElevenLabs, and the musical score was generated using Suno. The generated material was then selected, structured, edited, composited, and finished through a conventional post-production process, including editorial decisions and light visual-effects work.

The film was developed from an original screenplay and was directed through an iterative process of character design, shot design, performance direction, prompt development, generation, selection, continuity management, editing, sound design, and revision. No conventional live-action photography was used.

Plays in YouTube's player, on YouTube, by the link its maker gave the festival: [watch it there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVfNe3upuyU).