Phantom Rides II — Guilllaume Menguy

Phantom Ride II - The Kiss in the Tunnel11/2025
Model: Veo 3 Fast
1280x720
24fps

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.
Starting from a single image, a generative video model continues the film, only able to produce 8 seconds of video at a time. Every 8 seconds, four videos are generated from the last image, each deviating slightly, presenting different paths, different speeds. Each of these four videos then splits off into four more, and so on, growing exponentially. All of the paths produced in this branching structured are stacked on top of one another with ever diminishing opacity.