BEST AI ART VIDEO × BAIFF Venice
Prompt Magazine, in collaboration with CoMeta, is proud to announce the winner of the Prompt Magazine Best AI Art Video at BAIFF 2025 and the official international shortlist of finalists selected
During the Burano Artificial Intelligence Film Festival 2025, the Best AI Art Video Award by Prompt Magazine, in collaboration with CoMeta, was presented at the Auditorium of Fondazione The Human Safety Net, located in Piazza San Marco, Venice
Best Prompt Magazine AI Art video
Artist/Filmmaker: Weidi Zhang & Rodger Luo
You Only Have Seven Seconds.
Sound Production: Paul Taro Schmidt
Voice Denoising: Jonas Füllemann
Screenwriter: Lijiaozi Cheng
Special Thanks to: Sam Green
The audio and visual fragments in this film were drawn from a public interactive AI art installation, ReCollection, where visitors were invited to speak brief, seven-second excerpts of fading memories, while a customized AI system synthesized them in real time.
All recordings used are anonymised, non-identifiable, and contain no personal information. These fragments are not presented as individual narratives but woven together as part of a collective recollection.
This work extends the spirit of the original piece—Initially conceived as a personal reflection, ReCollection evolved into a shared worldmaking process, honouring the ephemeral, the unfinished, and the multiplicity of human expressions.
OFFICIAL SHORTLIST NOMINATION
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Andrea Ciulu
OTS Mixtape - DubDoo
Hallucinatory music video (part of a series of 6), apparently from the early days of hip hop in New York, is part of a larger project called On These Streets, exploring the link between artificial intelligence and shared memory.
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Andrea Meregalli
Effetti AI_ndesiderati
That intertwines artificial intelligence, medical language, and the human condition. Using the “side effects” of an antidepressant as prompts, it generates deformed bodies and hallucinatory colors, questioning AI’s ability to represent alienation and vulnerability.
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Arlo featuring Tegmo
Trasvaso
Is a breathless passage through an unrecognizable Venice seen by an unknown traveler whose perception of the world is not quite like ours. Under this unsteady gaze the city reconfigures itself. Domes, palazzi, arcades, facades slide, open, slip and recombine.
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Beatrice Mai; Haoren Zhong; Shuai Zong; Qihan Jiang
Round Table
Short stop-motion animation built from over 300 AI-generated images, each based on hand-drawn sketches and digital collages. Set at a Shanghainese family’s Chinese New Year dinner, the film explores how cultural expectation, gender roles, and generational pressure are performed through everyday rituals. While rooted in a specific context, these dynamics echo broadly across Asian diaspora.
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Daniel Atzil
The Anthropology of Elsewhere.
Documentary fiction from imagined civilizations, presenting archaeological evidence of societies where conformity and absurdity coexist, and where the mundane is elevated to ritual significance.
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Filippo Corradin: Motore Fluido.
The video unfolds a sequence of faces that melt and mutate, revealing skulls and new morphologies in a continuous flow reflecting on the impermanence of form and the transformation of matter. The visual component combines procedural modeling, TouchDesigner, and artificial intelligence (Stream Diffusion), while the soundtrack originates from original recordings processed through procedural composition and digital transformation with CDP (Composers Desktop Project).
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Ivan Torres
The Shadow WithinThis project is rooted in the conviction that a short film can evoke the inner lives of its characters as powerfully as it narrates their external journeys. The film explores the blurred boundaries between memory, dream, and reality—using visual metaphor and subjective perspective to immerse viewers in the protagonist’s fractured experience...
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Krzysztof Piła: Soloquim
Constructed from looping, glitched visuals, whispered recitations, and ambient soundscapes, it drifts through states — not explaining, not resolving, but immersing the viewer in an atmosphere of gradual dissolution. It’s not about understanding, but about remaining in suspension. About sensing a tension that doesn’t resolve, because the tension itself is the story.
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Luca Martinelli - V Ruins: The Burning Wake
Conceptual and experimental artist working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, immersive storytelling, and philosophical fiction. My work investigates distributed authorship, machine memory, and fragmented identity through web-based experiences, photographic hallucinations, and interactive installations.
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Marcos Micozzi; Hef Prentice
XYZ Sound Sculptures is a hybrid project transforming sound into sculptural form and moving image. During live performances, instruments are routed into a virtual environment and manipulated by Marcos Micozzi in real time with VR (Oculus). Trajectories of sound are captured as X, Y, Z coordinates, forming blueprints for organic 3D sculptures. Visual artist Hef Prentice translates these data into volume, texture, and movement, modeling and 3D-printing each sound as sculpture, creating a tangible materialization of sound itself.
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Pillart.ai: Venice Underground
"Venice Underground" is a dystopian, hallucinatory descent into the canals of Venice, where beauty collapses under the weight of mass tourism and human predation. Inspired by the flamboyant aesthetics of David LaChapelle, the staged absurdity of Wes Anderson, and the textured painterliness of Denis Sarazhin, the work merges visual excess with ecological critique.
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SeeThrough
Maybe Memories.
As a prelude, 'Maybe Memories' establishes the conceptual ground for a broader body of work shaped by SeeThrough’s personal encounters with dementia.
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Yeh Che;NG Chi Wai, Wang Teng-Yi, Lica Han
Escaping from Liberty is a short film that questions what liberty truly means. Looking back on the past decade in Taiwan—from the Sunflower Movement onward—it may appear that society has become increasingly free and open: technological progress, shifting geopolitics, and rising gender consciousness all seem to point toward liberation. Yet during this same decade, our generation remains burdened by labor, haunted by survival.
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Yza Voku
There are things that can only happen at night.
director and visual artist based in Madrid, fuses generative AI with traditional art and filmmaking to create experimental, multidisciplinary works. His immersive narratives blur the line between the organic and the synthetic, weaving surreal minimalism, performance photography, and avant-garde cinema into a deeply emotional and symbolic visual language.
Jury Acknowledgment
The selection process was carried out by the technical jury team of Prompt Magazine and CoMeta technical jury team: Maya Elav Nachson, Mario Esposito,Nina Sabina Caballero, Valeria Del Vacchio . under the supervision of Jury Presidents: Antonio Barbato, (CoMeta) and Marco Pittarello (Prompt Magazine).
Thank you to all the talented artists who submitted their work
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