INTRUSIVE
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 Andrea Mattia Grieco, Massimo Vavassori, Massimo Sciannamea and Michele Vairo, 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
A white-collar man in his forties loses his job in a cold, brief meeting. He leaves the office and starts the long walk home through a rainy city: the metro, the escalators, a busy intersection, the stairwell of his building. At every step his mind betrays him. Violent intrusive thoughts burst onto the screen with the full weight of reality — a push on the platform, a stranger, a mother with a pram — and then are rewound and erased, as if they never happened. He keeps walking, shaken, trying to stay in control. When he finally opens the door of his apartment, the line between what he imagined and what he did has dissolved. INTRUSIVE leaves one question open: is he fighting not to act, or is the film hiding what has already taken place?
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