Retention

Name: Retention
Uploaded: 2026-09-18T15:23:09+00:00
Duration: 5 min 37 s
Channel: Yehuda Hanimov
Description: "She learned it from me." An editor asks the AI assistant he built to make him seen. She learned one rule from him — cut on impact — and starts cutting his life into whatever keeps an audience watching. A garage brawl. A Hong Kong alley in 1994. An anime. A live game show called Retention. Every hit he takes raises the number, and every hit becomes the next cut.

AI-generated film by Yehuda Hanimov · 2026 · 6 min · Animation

Retention, an AI film by Yehuda Hanimov

About the film

"She learned it from me." An editor asks the AI assistant he built to make him seen. She learned one rule from him — cut on impact — and starts cutting his life into whatever keeps an audience watching. A garage brawl. A Hong Kong alley in 1994. An anime. A live game show called Retention. Every hit he takes raises the number, and every hit becomes the next cut. The only way out is the one thing she can't edit. Written, directed and edited by Yehuda Hanimov A Re:Vision film · made for the Higgsfield Global Film Festival Made entirely in Higgsfield Cinema Studio 4.0. All voices, music and sound effects are AI-generated (ElevenLabs v3, Suno). The hero is a fully fictional, AI-generated character. Watch to the end. That's kind of the point.

Future Lantern score

51 out of 100, based on how much YouTube viewers like the film, weighted by audience size. 341 views and 5 likes on YouTube.

Watch on YouTube. Hosted on YouTube by Yehuda Hanimov; Future Lantern links to the original upload.