✨ Somnium Corvi: A Dreamlike Journey into AI-Driven Cinema ✨

A New Film, A New Method

Cinema has always been a medium of reinvention. With Somnium Corvi, we arrive at a threshold where film, performance, and artificial intelligence converge to create something entirely new: a cinema of visions rather than scripts, of gestures rather than dialogues, of dreamscapes rather than storyboards.

Somnium Corvi is a meditation on space, costume, performance, and the power of AI-driven imagination. It does not follow the logic of traditional cinema, where the process begins with a screenplay or structured narrative arc. Instead, it begins with an image: a vision that contains within it the DNA of a film yet to unfold.

Introducing Vibe Prompting

At the heart of Somnium Corvi is a method called Vibe Prompting. This is a contemporary evolution of the Exquisite Corpse principle, familiar to surrealists who co-created art through fragmented contributions. But unlike the Surrealist game, Vibe Prompting does not rely on randomness. It relies on resonance.

An image becomes the seed. Within it are the essentials:

• Space: the architecture that frames the action.

• Performers: the figures who embody the vision.

• Costumes: extensions of the body that transform it into something new.

• Gestures: symbolic acts that carry the weight of story.

From this single frame, the film unfolds in dialogue with AI. Each step is improvised, co-created, discovered. What emerges is not a prewritten plot, but a living dramaturgy shaped by space, body, and digital imagination.

Cinema as Co-Creation

Somnium Corvi positions AI not as a tool, but as a collaborator. In this process, characters do not obey the dictates of a script—they find their own movements and meanings through interplay with the AI. Architecture becomes a protagonist; costumes speak; gestures hold the weight of narrative.

This is a cinema closer to performance art and dance than to Hollywood storytelling. It is also research: a practice of invention where human intention and algorithmic suggestion meet in a constantly shifting dialogue.

The Architecture of Dreams

The central stage of Somnium Corvi is an abandoned church. But this church is no static backdrop. Through AI-driven transformations, it becomes an elastic, dreamlike environment:

• Chambers unfold into impossible geometries.

• Arches elongate and collapse like breathing structures.

• Shadows open into new worlds of performance.

Here, architecture is not setting—it is soul. The church itself dictates new dramaturgies, guiding performers into acts that are as much ritual as they are narrative.

New Workflows: First Frame / Last Frame

To bring these visions to life, Somnium Corvi employs Kling’s first-frame/last-frame tool. This allows camera movements and transitions that are not merely technical, but poetic: doors opening into new dream-spaces, soaring pans that dissolve into corridors of light, frames that breathe like living paintings.

These workflows push AI filmmaking beyond mere novelty. They open the possibility of cinematic language evolving in real time, guided by mood, vision, and architectural metaphor.

Why Somnium Corvi Matters

In a time when AI tools are often discussed in terms of efficiency, productivity, or replacement, Somnium Corvi offers another path. It shows us how AI can be woven into the creative act itself—not as shortcut, but as collaborator.

• For filmmakers, it offers new dramaturgies, workflows, and aesthetics.

• For performance artists, it provides spaces where gesture and costume can evolve in dialogue with architecture.

• For AI creators, it demonstrates how prompting can become a live, improvisational practice, closer to dance than to code.

Toward a Cinema of Vibe

Somnium Corvi is more than a film. It is a manifesto for a new kind of cinema—one that unfolds like a dream, where narrative is an evolving score and AI becomes a co-author of visions. It is an invitation to see what happens when we allow space, costume, and gesture to lead the way, guided by the resonances of vibe prompting.