Watch out of the box - Eric Narjes

Experiments and projects between storytelling, reality and artificial intellgence

Memory

This video was created to bring together different capabilities of AI image generation within a single story. The focus was mainly on character consistency as well as the control of light and camera.

The starting point was a simple scene that moves through different times, styles and visual worlds.

This raises a few questions: Which stories do we actually remember? How do stories write history? And who actually tells these stories?

The real treasure

During the development of the characters and their world, a kind of pirate story emerged – not focused on gold, but on togetherness.

To keep the focus on storytelling, a simplified AI workflow using only two models was employed.

The AI is here

First intensive attempt at storytelling using AI-generated images.

Deliberate abstraction to maintain distance from reality – not as a simulation, but as a narrative device.