# COMPULSION

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

A woman obsessed with the number five repeats every action exactly five times. When subtle inconsistencies begin to disrupt her controlled reality, she starts questioning whether the world around her is real. Her anxiety eventually turns toward herself: is she human, or something generated? COMPULSION transforms the urge to distinguish human from AI into a psychological obsession.

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