In a near-future flooded city, Billie navigates a surreal carnival of masked balls and societal decay, all set to “The Blue Danube.” Created entirely with AI, this film visualizes hauntingly realistic flood scenarios based on recent Austrian events, exploring humanity’s resilience and the unsettling power of artificial intelligence.
Director statement
This was my first try to produce a film with state-of-the-art AI tools. The backbone and core of my inspiration is The Blue Danube by Johan Strauss.
Bio
Kubakub, the artistic moniker of Jakob Jakubowski, is a Vienna-based architect, 3D artist, and filmmaker whose work traverses the realms of motion, sound, and immersive design. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2022, where he earned his degree in Art and Architecture, Kubakub has collaborated with a diverse array of artists and architects on both national and international projects. Over time, his creative focus has been constantly in flux between the physical and the virtual, transforming digital environments into his canvas for storytelling.
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.
