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TrashCanRoxanne
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TrashCanRoxanne is the creative identity of Roxanne Ducharme, an award-winning filmmaker and AI director with 40 years of experience in animation and cinema. Her surreal, cinematic AI films have earned international recognition, and in 2026 she was named one of Leonardo.Ai’s Top 50 Women AI Filmmakers, with the list also featured by Forbes Australia.
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WORTH FIGHTING FOR
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On a bleak, fog-shrouded beach, anthropomorphic pig-men wage an epic battle over one priceless treasure.
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E L S E W H E R E
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Elsewhere is a kaleidoscopic journey through a dreamscape of impossible beings, exploring a reality governed by surreal logic. As strange worlds emerge, dissolve, and transform into one another, the boundary between fashion, nightmare, and wonder blurs. Set to an original wordless score generated from samples of the filmmaker’s own voice, the film unfolds as a visual symphony of the uncanny, guided by mood, rhythm, and imagination rather than conventional narrative. Edited with the rhythm and freedom of a music video, Elsewhere sits between experimental cinema, visual art, and music film.
E L S E W H E R E
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YASSELY
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Post-apocalyptic vibes.
YASSELY
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I Don't Give A...
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These AI robots don’t care what anyone thinks of them, in a motivational short for unapologetic AI. ⚠️ Strong language
I Don't Give A...
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Dreamscapes & Oddities - Volume 3
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This series is a mesmerizing journey through the surreal and the poetic, where bizarre, otherworldly characters come to life with eerie refinement. Each AI-generated short is a visual experiment—an exploration of dreamlike worlds, haunting beauty, and hypnotic movement. This collection is a testament to the strange elegance of the unknown, where the boundaries between art, technology, and imagination blur.
Dreamscapes & Oddities - Volume 3
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SHORELiNE 7
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Winner of First Prize for Best Trailer at the 3rd Seoul International AI Film Festival (SIAFF). In a restricted zone along a fog-choked shoreline, a lone survivor documents the appearance of strange, otherworldly creatures—unaware that her footage may be the last transmission Earth will ever receive. Created in collaboration with the artist Monty Phyt, SHORELINE 7 unfolds as an elliptical narrative, pieced together from fragments of recovered archival footage and final log entries from a woman stationed alone in a remote quarantine zone. Tasked with monitoring signs of life after an unidentified aerial event, her routine observations descend into dread as alien forms emerge from the mist—shifting, rhythmic, and aware. As her isolation deepens and transmissions begin to fail, one question lingers: is she still watching… or being watched? Conceived as a creative experiment, the project merges image, voice, sound, and AI motion to explore strange rhythms, alien forms, and the sensation of standing on the edge of something unknowable. Featuring a haunting voice-over by my friend, the amazing Kim Bubbs.
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THE SEA THAT DREAMED
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Award winner at the OMNI International AI Film Festival in Sydney, the AI Film Awards Bali, the Kyoto Cinematica Film Festival, Cine Vista Oasis Film Awards in Jakarta, the Bali International AI Film Festival, the Chalachitra International Film Award in Italy, and the AI International Film Festival in Los Angeles, with an Honorable Mention at the Reply AI Film Festival in Venice. Adrift in a strange sea, a creature wanders until a forgotten jar reveals a hidden world within. THE SEA THAT DREAMED is a poetic journey through memory, identity, and the quiet hope that lingers beneath the waves. A surreal meditation on what remains when everything else slips away, the film reflects on how, even in moments of confusion or solitude, small things can guide us home.
THE SEA THAT DREAMED
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Dreamscapes & Oddities - Volume 2
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This series is a mesmerizing journey through the surreal and the poetic, where bizarre, otherworldly characters come to life with eerie refinement. Each AI-generated short is a visual experiment—an exploration of dreamlike worlds, haunting beauty, and hypnotic movement. This collection is a testament to the strange elegance of the unknown, where the boundaries between art, technology, and imagination blur.
Dreamscapes & Oddities - Volume 2
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Dreamscapes & Oddities - Volume 1
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This series is a mesmerizing journey through the surreal and the poetic, where bizarre, otherworldly characters come to life with eerie refinement. Each AI-generated short is a visual experiment—an exploration of dreamlike worlds, haunting beauty, and hypnotic movement. This collection is a testament to the strange elegance of the unknown, where the boundaries between art, technology, and imagination blur.
Dreamscapes & Oddities - Volume 1
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WiNTERHOLLOW
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Recipient of a Silver Cloud Award at OMNI: AI Film Festival in Sydney, Australia, and Honorable Mentions at the 2025 Project Odyssey and the 2025 Seoul AI International Film Festival. WiNTERHOLLOW is a haunting forest where beauty conceals danger, and strange, eerie forces lurk. Travelers, drawn by its glow, face surreal trials and chilling legends, with few ever escaping its grip.
WiNTERHOLLOW
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2025 AI Showreel
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A curated compilation of AI-generated work exploring surreal worlds, fantastical creatures, and kinetic sequences through a range of moods and visual approaches, where artistry and technology collide.
2025 AI Showreel
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We Try Not To Think About It Now
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Awarded Best Art Direction at the AI International Film Festival in Los Angeles and Best Music Video at the 2025 Seoul International AI Film Festival, this music video was also a finalist at several international festivals and received an Honorable Mention at the 2024 Czech International AI Film Festival. In this deceptively whimsical film, a simple trip to Los Angeles becomes a kaleidoscopic journey through distorted realities into the underbelly of LA. Set to the haunting music of Sukie Smith, "We Try Not to Think About it Now" explores the unsettling edges of perception, where reality is fluid and elusive, reflecting the multifaceted nature of the world we think we know.
We Try Not To Think About It Now
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FOSSiLS
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Winner of Best Non-Fiction Short at the 2025 Seattle AI Film Festival, Best AI Short at the Tokyo Film & Screenplay Awards, and recipient of a Highly Commendable mention at the AIfa Awards 2025, FOSSiLS is a poetic meditation on humanity’s impermanence and the traces we leave behind. Imagining a future where humankind fades into history like the dinosaurs, this haunting and reflective work intertwines themes of fragility, legacy, and the cyclical nature of life on Earth.
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