Grandmère - Short film
Grandmère was inspired by my own childhood memories, my grandmother’s house, and the small “ghosts” of imagination that shaped me, and that quietly disappeared as I grew older.
As of April 2026, the film has earned 2nd Place in the Drama & Romance category at the Chroma Awards (selected from over 6.500 submissions), won Best Mixed Art Film at the Budapest SmartFest and an Honorable Mention at the MIXED Film Festival in Portland, Oregon. The film is in the offical selection at the Shibuya AI Film Gallery in Tokyo and the Korea AI Cinema Festival and made it on the shortlist at Wonder FilmFestival.
The film blends real Super 8 footage with AI-generated imagery to explore the loss of innocence, the loneliness of adulthood, and the rediscovery of creativity. It visualizes how imagination can fade and how it can return.
Using Google Veo 3 and Gemini, I extended real memories into fantastical moments, recreated my grandmother, and built a visual world where childhood ghosts reappear. However, the Super 8 footage is only about one minute in length, so the majority of the film is AI-generated (approximately 85%). For the music I used Suno and for voices I used ElevenLabs.