2025 AI VIDEO GENERATION

A Fluid Dream

Exhibited at INTEGRATE: UNFINISHED MIGRATION, Indra Gallery, London

"A fluid Dream: Driving away from my grandma's house" is a reconstruction of a memory with AI. Sometimes when memories got blurred, the video of a moment starts to feel surreal. So I wanted to create something that looks alike those moments but quite blurred and foggy. With frame interpolation, it then becomes clearer and clearer to the real video I took in the end. Which one feels more surreal? The reality or AI generation?

Memory has a fluid quality - it shifts, blurs, and reconstructs itself over time. This piece explores the liminal space between recollection and reality, between the emotional truth of a moment and its factual documentation. As I drove away from my grandmother's house, I captured a simple video, but the emotional weight of that departure seemed to transform the ordinary into something dreamlike.

Using AI to reconstruct this memory, I created a version that feels both foreign and familiar - a ghostly echo of the original moment. The gradual clarification through frame interpolation mirrors how memories sometimes come into focus, while questioning whether our technological reconstructions might be more emotionally accurate than the original recordings.

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Technical Implementation

This piece employs AI text-to-video generation and frame interpolation technologies to explore the reconstruction of memory. The process begins with textual descriptions of the original video, which are then fed into AI video generation models to create an abstracted, dreamlike interpretation of the scene.

Frame interpolation techniques are subsequently applied to gradually transition from the AI-generated footage to the original video recording. This technological process mirrors the psychological phenomenon of memory reconstruction, where our recollections are constantly being rewritten and refined through the lens of emotion and time.

The juxtaposition between AI-generated and authentic footage raises questions about the nature of truth in our digital age, particularly in relation to personal memory and computational interpretation of human experience.