# Ash Under Tongue: Forbidden Footage of the Bone Reclamation Rite

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 Andy Spain, as [Artefact AI Film Festival](https://artefact-ai-film-festival.com/gallery) names them.

Inspired by the occult documentary atmosphere of Häxan and the decaying worlds of Gormenghast and Viriconium,, Ash Under Tongue: Forbidden Footage of the Bone Reclamation Rite presents recovered archival footage of ancient humanoid travelers performing a ceremony whose purpose has outlived its explanation. Amid the remnants of a once-advanced civilization, they gather to reclaim the bones of the dead, preserving gestures and procedures inherited from a world they can no longer comprehend. Scarred images and solemn intertitles bear witness to an act both sacred and profane.

Plays in Vimeo's player, on Vimeo, by the link its maker gave the festival: [watch it there](https://vimeo.com/1235090573).