Phantom Ride I - Zapruder30/09/2025
Model: Veo 3 Fast
1280x720
24fps
00:04:32

The Phantom Ride was a type of film popular around the turn of the XIXth century. It simply consisted in strapping a camera to a moving vehicle, often a train. Our moviegoing ancestors, unfamiliar with the idea of a moving camera, were entertained by the mystical force driving the image forwards.
This small experiment consists in extending again and again the very first frame of the infamous Zapruder film, letting the generation drift, attempting to wrangle it, noticing the behaviours of the neural network and what it tends to propose, and negotiating with it to create one continuous tracking shot that traverses a variety of situations.

Copyright / Guillaume Menguy / 2025