Film
A Dutch historical horror short about serial poisoner Maria Swanenburg, rendered as a living 19th-century engraving.
View FilmJan-Willem Blom uses a tightly controlled AI image-to-video workflow to create a coherent engraved-pulp visual language rooted in historical research.
AI generated and animated hundreds of controlled engraved-style frames with continuity constraints and historical art direction.
The film has a strong authored style rather than generic realism and shows how AI can enable distinctive art-direction systems.