"Children of the Earth"

AI-generated film by Shifting Tides · 2025 · 2 min · Horror

"Children of the Earth", an AI film by Shifting Tides

About the film

"CHILDREN OF THE EARTH" - I have a very visceral relationship with the Horror genre. It is something that has fascinated me since young age and a genre that has deeply shaped my work and aesthetic. In this latest AI short film, I wanted to experiment with the idea of building tension through silence, and see if I could create something truly eerie and unsettling, not through jump scares or heavy exposition, but through subtle characterization and minimal dialogue. My goal was to let the environment itself do the storytelling—using silence as a tool to amplify unease. I deliberately chose an outdoor setting, where sound typically dissipates into open space. Instead of relying on traditional horror tropes, I used environmental sound design to make that openness feel suffocating. The result is a scene where silence doesn’t create peace, but pressure. Beyond the atmosphere, I also wanted to try push the performance capture, all done with Runway Gen3 Act 1 and an iPhone, and prompted perfo

Made with

Runway, Kling (detected from the film’s published title and description)

Future Lantern score

32 out of 100, based on how much YouTube viewers like the film, weighted by audience size. 43,390 views and 353 likes on YouTube.

Watch on YouTube. Hosted on YouTube by Shifting Tides; Future Lantern links to the original upload.