Anachronism

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Inspiration

Anachronism — Fragments of Time was born from a simple question: what if a real city could drift across multiple eras within the same film?

Observing Toulouse — a southern French city shaped by Romanesque architecture, pink bricks and porous materials — I imagined a parallel version of it. A city where the past, the future, and speculative “elsewhere” coexist, overlap, and distort.

AI became the ideal tool to explore this visual hypothesis: not to stylize the city, but to reveal its latent states, its potential metamorphoses, its versions that reality never allowed.

What I Built

The project takes the form of a 90-second experimental AI film composed of continuous architectural mutations. It is structured around three visual chapters: “Sables Éternels”, “Expansion Organique”, and “Fluides et Abysses.”

Narrative Structure

The film follows a simple arc: reality → alteration → mutation → parallel vision → dissolution → reconstruction.

The goal: to create a drifting visual state where the city seems to breathe, twist, and reinvent itself.

How AI Was Used

AI was used as a catalyst for aesthetic exploration, never as a replacement for artistic direction.

Main AI Functions

Image generation with diffusion models via ComfyUI

Architectural and textural transformations from real photographs

Image-to-image and video interpolations using Kling AI

Editing, sequencing and color work completed manually in CapCut

The method combines computational transformation with strict human curation and intentionality.

What I Learned

AI models must be guided with precision: feeding multiple images of the same monument is necessary to preserve structure while enabling transformation.

Interpolations demand rigorous curation to maintain spatial continuity.

Artistic direction is essential: every generated frame must be selected, corrected, and assembled into a coherent narrative.

Stability must be sculpted manually — the AI alone tends toward chaos.

Challenges Maintaining Architectural Consistency

Avoiding that the AI “devours” façades or breaks essential volumes required extensive control and frame selection.

Finding the Right Temporal Rhythm

Too fast → loss of legibility. Too slow → loss of impact.

Preserving Visual Identity

Ensuring that each transformation remains aligned with the project’s aesthetic DNA: urban textures, nocturnal tones, and contemplative techno-raw energy.

Conclusion

Anachronism — Fragments of Time is not merely an AI-generated video. It is an architectural hypothesis, a speculation on what a city might become if its historical layers were free to overlap.

A city never fixed, always in the process of becoming.

Built With

• api
• capcut
• chatgpt
• comfyui
• klingai
• nanobana
• seadream