Phantom Rides III — Guilllaume Menguy

Phantom Ride III - Broken Afternoon01/2026
Model: Veo 3 Fast
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00:09:27

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.
From a film shot in a single take, a single image is collected every eight seconds - the longest length that the video model used could generate. The sampled images are used as references for the start and end of these eight second chunks, and the video model invents the motion that connects the two. Every eight seconds, indexicality is restored for a single instant before deviating back at a constant, sinusoidal rhythm into the flow of artificial imagination.