This is the beginning of a list of links to the ‘best’ state of the art AI-generated* films – short or feature length and any genre.
Links are either to the films themselves or the curated galleries exhibiting them.
https://curiousrefuge.com/ai-film-gallery links to YouTube videos e.g.
The Curious Refuge channel is a great place to kick off an exploration of examples of the state of the art in AI generative techniques and films themselves
https://youtube.com/@curiousrefuge
They run competitions too e.g. AI Sketch Comedy films
https://aiff.runwayml.com/ links to unlisted YouTube videos e.g.
https://x.com/TashaCaufield/status/1930654346145939489
https://x.com/MarkLalonde68/status/1984441413258367284
https://x.com/billywoodward/status/1973364986807459915
Hooroo Jackson (https://www.instagram.com/hooroojackson) has created “the first fully AI CG Animated Feature Film” with two versions of the main protagonist. https://escape.ai/watch/6933ec8e538a0a7cb5fabfb8
WickedAI (https://youtube.com/@wickedai) makes AI videos and streams the creative process on Twitch under the account MajinBuu
There are several reddit sites like https://www.reddit.com/r/aifilm/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/ which contain films of very variable quality so finding the gems can take a lot of digging e.g.
https://filmfreeway.com/RedRocksAIFilmFestival has details of the Red Rocks AI film festival and this is one of the finalists
https://melies.co/ai-film-festivals is a list of AI film festivals with links to them e.g.
https://www.bestaifilms.com/ links to several films but the quality is variable and since many of the films are over a year old, technology has moved on significantly.
The Arizona AI Film & Art Festival https://www.aifilm3.com/ is making winning films available through RadTV.com https://rad.live/ (some films can be viewed without a login)
Some AI film makers self publish e.g. https://x.com/BLVCKLIGHTai on YouTube
and other new platforms like https://escape.ai/ and https://x.com/aimusicvideo
https://escape.ai/watch/68d7246a8361109fa9d7cfb8
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If you know a site or have a film online which you think is up there with these please leave a comment and I’ll add to the list.
*AI-generated films are made through workflows that employ an AI video generator like Veo 3.1, Sora 2, LTX 2, Hailou, WAN 2.5, Kling, Runway, HeyGen, Pika, Adobe Firefly, Luma, Grok, Seedance, etc.
The tools can be accessed either
- natively through the provider’s own website or app
- via an AI tool aggregator (aka all-in-one AI generation platform) like openart.ai, higgsfield.ai
- via a locally installed software AI workflow platform like ComfyUI.
A typical workflow involves taking real or generated images, extending them into video, upscaling and adding real or generated dialogue, sound effects and music. The process may optionally be preceded by a script/storyboard stage and followed by a video editing stage which assembles the various elements into a coherent work.
GI Chow 