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The carved stone well on the lawn at Lyndhurst coming to life, its cherubs waking, as a man in a black vest walks away toward the bare iron skeleton of the greenhouse

Now showing · Work no. 10

Short film · 2 min · sound on

The Wishing Well

A man explores the skeleton of a great glasshouse, finds a stone well on the lawn and tosses in a coin. Behind his back the garden comes home.

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A man in a cream straw cowboy hat and navy vest stands at a black railing looking out at the Great Falls, switched off, with a cleaning crew out on the dry rock

Work no. 9

Short film · 1 min 48 s · sound on

Cleaning Day

The Great Falls are switched off for their weekly cleaning. A crew in yellow waders scrubs the rock, washes the power plant windows and turns the valve at eight.

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A man in a brown cowboy hat and tan canvas jacket pushes out of a tall cornfield at sunrise

Work no. 8

Short film · 1 min 57 s · sound on

Heaven Hill

A pumpkin farm and carnival at sunrise, an hour before it opens. Come out of the cornfield and you find the residents are already up.

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Through a pair of binoculars, a red biplane loops trailing white smoke over the Bear Mountain Bridge and the Hudson River

Work no. 7

Short film · 1 min 50 s · with Erik's voice

Bear Mountain

At the top of Bear Mountain the viewers cost a quarter. With your own eyes you get the sunrise and the Hudson. Through the viewer, the sky is busy.

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An elephant lifted out of an old wooden circus train by a cluster of faded balloons, the train stopped on the Moodna Viaduct above the valley

Work no. 6

Short film · 2 min 38 s · colour

Moodna

A train crosses the Moodna Viaduct every morning. In this one, it stopped halfway across, and the circus got off. Nobody is surprised. That's the rule.

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From above, a turquoise rowboat crosses clear water over the roofs and steeple of a village under the Ashokan Reservoir

Work no. 5

Short film · 2 min 40 s · narrated by Erik

Ashokan

Twelve towns are under this water. At sunrise a man rows four of their people back down to visit, and rows back alone.

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In black and white, a man walks the crest of a huge dune toward the rising sun, footprints behind him

Work no. 4

Short film · 2 min 41 s · black and white

Drift

At dawn a man climbs a dune he found by accident and follows footprints that the wind keeps erasing. Every trail leads to someone.

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A man in a waxed jacket, seen from behind, watches a 1920s garden party on the lawn of the restored Northgate mansion

Work no. 3

Short film · 3 min 11 s

Northgate

A man rows to the ruins of the Cornish Estate, and as he walks through them the house comes back around him. What if the ruins came back?

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An old double chairlift climbing above the clouds, two jellyfish and a woman with an umbrella riding the chairs

Work no. 2

Short film · 1 min · and a 4 min music video

Lift May Start at Any Time

An old double chairlift, closed for the season, with a sign that says it may start at any time. One morning it does.

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Three young men in shirtsleeves laugh around a dark racehorse at a whitewashed stable door in 1940s Mexico City

Work no. 1

Short film · 2 min · narrated by Erik

I Wonder What Happened to Skypanther

My father told me stories about a racehorse called Skypanther, in Mexico City around 1950. We were never sure he was real. The story behind the studio's name.

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The studio

Fiction, made openly with AI

Every Skypanther film begins with a photograph of a real place, and then something impossible happens in it. The place is photographed as it is; what else could be true there is built with AI, frame by frame, and shaped by hand until only what was chosen remains.

Nobody in the films explains anything, and nobody is surprised. The first and last frames are real. Everything between them is a fiction, and every work is labelled as made with AI.

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Fiction told in real places · images and score made with AI

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