Grandmère - Short film

December 2025

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.

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.

©MMXXV Martin Haerlin, Berlin/Germany
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