Trashman Diary
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 Kai Lachmann, 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
In an anonymous metropolis, a garbage collector goes about his physically demanding daily work with quiet dignity. He lives alone, in modest circumstances. A brief encounter with an upper-class woman reveals the distance between their worlds. Gradually, hints emerge of the wife who once shared his life, though her fate remains unknown. With an observational, documentary-inspired visual style, Trashman Diary follows a man who carries on with quiet resolve amid loneliness and memories.
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