Same Time Next Year
From Artefact AI Film Festival, on Vimeo, 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 Da Li, 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
Grandma Ruth lives alone at the end of Maple Lane. The town's children run past her dark house, but every Halloween she sets out candy, carves a gap-toothed pumpkin and waits. A small, silent trick-or-treater in a patched bedsheet knocks. They share cocoa, carve and laugh. At midnight he asks in crayon: "Same time next year?" As he walks down the porch steps, the wind lifts the sheet: it falls flat on the leaves, empty. Ruth is not surprised. Inside, she turns over a face-down frame: a 1952 photo of two children in bedsheets — "Ruthie & Tommy — Same time next year!"
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