I Don’t Really Know Either. One simple question, asked across history.
- Project
- Personal Project
- Format
- AI Imagery
- Idea & Animation
- Robert Brembeck
- Tools
- Qwen-Image, Kling, ElevenLabs, Suno
The film
Everything in this film is AI-generated. An interviewer with an iPhone travels through time and asks history’s protagonists a simple question: why are you doing this? Their answers are honest, improvised and rarely heroic.
Character development
Every figure began as a character sheet with front, side and back views and close-ups of the face. These sheets kept each character consistent from frame to frame.
Backdrops
Each era was first built as an empty set: a cave lit only by a phone torch, Giza, Salisbury Plain, Leonardo’s workshop, a mine in 1945, a castle in Transylvania. The light came first, then the characters.
Keyframes
Characters and sets were combined into start frames, always over the interviewer’s shoulder with the phone raised. That one fixed point of view holds six very different worlds together.
Making of
For the interviews in Kling, we never gave the characters a script. Each prompt set the scene, the light, the voice and the accent, then gave the character only talking points to put in their own words. The hesitations, pauses and small gestures that come out of that are what make them feel real.