District 9 director Neill Blomkamp releases a 13-minute AI-generated short film
The Decoder · rss · 2026-07-21
- Neill Blomkamp, the director of District 9, has released Nightborne, a 13-minute sci-fi horror short made entirely with the Seedance 2.0 video model.
- He says he directed it frame by frame with text prompts, rather than using a traditional production pipeline.
- Blomkamp has also founded Barley Studios, an AI film studio, with plans to produce a feature-length film next.
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