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SAAKSHE

In 2133, one open AI watches everything and controls nothing. A five-minute film, made entirely with AI — every frame, every voice, the score — and cut with the tools we build.

SAAKSHE key art: horses crossing a plain at dusk, the title woven into the light
Key art — the title written into the light over the plain.
The film

A witness that cannot own what it sees.

SAAKSHE — the witness — is set in 2133, after money, in a world kept by one open, centralised AI that watches everything and owns nothing. It is a quiet film: a custodian, a plain, a city on the horizon, and the question of what it means to be seen by something that never looks away.

Five minutes and twenty-six seconds. 7,812 frames. Every frame generated, every voice synthesised, the score written by machine — then chosen, graded and cut by hand.

Runtime
5 minutes 26 seconds
Frames
7,812, generated shot by shot
Year
2026
Festivals
Submitted to the Astana and Busan AI film festivals, 2026
How it was made

The film is a proof of the pipeline.

Nothing here was hired out. Each stage ran on tools we build and, where we could, on our own machine.

Look
Every shot was designed against a fixed style, read and kept consistent with AIKIZI's decode — light, lens, palette and the words a prompt needs.
Frames
Image and video models made the plates, shot by shot, then were re-cut and re-timed until the sequence held.
Motion and grade
Assembled and graded in After Effects, driven over MCP by deterministic recipes — the same ones we open-sourced as conductor.
Sound
Voices and score generated, then placed against the cut by hand.
Delivery
Masters and reels written with reel-hdr, our Dolby Vision 8.4 pipeline; the festival print is SDR, native aspect, subtitles on picture.

Made with AI end to end, and disclosed as such wherever it was submitted.

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The tools that made it.

The same pipeline is available to you: a style engine, a free browser lab, and the render tooling under MIT.

Screenings and press
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For a screener, stills or the festival print, write to us.