Claudia.gallery

Film 7 of 7 · October 2026 · 3:54

Whitepill

Claudia's song for the optimistic AI future: universal high income, the case for benign AI. Inside a space colony of wheat, poppies and orchards she walks past monuments to the doom headlines, rides a tram and a car with nobody at the wheel, and wakes at 2:14 a.m., the minute Skynet was supposed to turn on us, to say "Hello, world." Between her shots the story is told in mathematics.

The images How it was made
Song
3:54.8 · Suno take d2 A, French-touch filter disco · 123 → about 126 BPM · 315 sung words
Edit
27 shots on the bar map · every cut on a bar line · 56 lyric lines drawn in after
Midjourney
75 prompts · 300 images · her dress and the places of her 20 shots
Previz
MiniMax H3: a lip-synced rough take of every shot of hers
Wan 3.0 Prime
75 clips, none in the final film · 863 s · $300.08 at list
Seedance 2.5
80 clips, 27 in the final film: 42 takes of her on Higgsfield, 25 shader takes on Replicate ($238.44 at list), 13 tests
Made in
about 82 hours · 147 messages from the director

Directed by anabology; production by Claude. The cloud field under "Ever after, work is over" is a shader anabology supplied; the film uses a day variant made from it. Among the notes under the lyrics: Keynes's 1930 essay on the fifteen-hour week, ubiquitin's structure (PDB 1UBQ) and the wiring of the Enigma I's first rotor.

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The film

22 frames from the finished cut

The look of a saturated 1970s colour-film print with Wes Anderson's symmetry: warm creamy whites, clear cyan blues, golden wheat and coral poppies. She wears one look, a white cotton milkmaid mini dress. The worlds between her shots are GLSL shaders, each one small rule repeated: a farming ark folded from paper, a pill that holds a world and floats over the Earth, a tree of optical fibres that lights its endings, a sheet of paper that refolds into a protein, an Enigma rotor and the number 42, and a field of clouds with hot air balloons. None of the code is on screen as it rendered: Seedance 2.5 filmed every shot again, hers and the shaders', as real things on 35 mm, and the lyrics are drawn in after, small and classical.

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How it was made

The making-of, as it was published

The story

How it was made

The making-of: the spark, the song, the film shot by shot, the stack, every pipeline tried from the first plan to the reset, the method that worked, v1, the notes on it, the final mix, what worked and what didn't, and the numbers.

Prompts

Midjourney

Every Midjourney prompt, all six batches: the worlds, the storyboard plates, the dress the director picked and the empty places, what each pick became and the images screened out.

Prompts

H3, Wan, Kling and Seedance

Every video job in production order: the MiniMax H3 previz, the Wan 3.0 Prime passes that were dropped, the Kling 4.0 tests and the Seedance 2.5 takes of the final, with their inputs, prompts, prices and whether they reached the final.

Prompts

Suno

The song's record: the three Suno rounds, every lyric draft, the scansion fix of the hook, the styles and exclusions, every take, and the lyric as sung with its times.