aratama 璞 awarded Second Place (Runner-up) at the international AI film contest “BRAVE NEW BEGINNINGS” (Escape AI × Dreamina)

2026-02-09

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Award Announcement

AI artist and filmmaker aratama 璞 has been awarded Second Place (Runner-up) in the global AI filmmaking contest “Escape × Dreamina – BRAVE NEW BEGINNINGS”, co-hosted by Escape.ai and Dreamina.

This international film challenge evaluates narrative strength, creativity, and innovative use of AI tools, and drew participation from AI filmmakers and visual storytellers worldwide.
A key characteristic of the contest is its emphasis on narrative-driven works that go beyond pure visual spectacle—leveraging Dreamina’s strengths such as multi-frame coherence and character/style consistency.

For this competition, aratama 璞 entered the cinematic music video “Spiraling Anger – 怒螺旋.” The film was highly regarded for both its expressive depth and narrative quality, and was selected as one of the Top 3 winning films.

About the Award-Winning Film

Spiraling Anger – 怒螺旋

(aratama 璞 / Escape AI × Dreamina Contest Film)

This cinematic music video explores the structural nature of anger—how it circulates, accumulates, and repeats within human society.

Rather than depicting war or violence directly, the film evokes anger as an atmosphere: a sense of impending collision expressed through rhythm, tension, and perceptual distortion.
Thoughts repeating without a clear cause, emotions amplified without an identifiable origin, and systems that keep moving even after they are forgotten—
anger is perceived not as a single event, but as acceleration, dissonance, and unresolved pressure.

The audiovisual perspective expands from an intimate, bodily scale to nature, the Earth, the cosmos, and ultimately a worldview in which all things coexist.
The imagery of plants multiplying abnormally—seemingly overtaking traces of conflict—serves as a symbolic suggestion that destruction and regeneration can coexist beyond human intention.

Music and visuals are tightly synchronized, with rhythm itself functioning as the engine of the narrative.
Minimal, repeating lyrics operate as an AI-mediated form of language that extends beyond conventional semantics, inviting meaning to be completed within the viewer.
Tracing the looping thought patterns that sustain anger, the work ultimately leaves a single question behind.

—This film quietly sings of “coexistence.”

Context Within the Contest

“Spiraling Anger – 怒螺旋” responds to the theme “BRAVE NEW BEGINNINGS” by presenting:

regeneration beyond conflict
transformation from repetitive emotional structures
a worldview where destruction and renewal coexist

as an integrated experience in which narrative, visuals, and music operate as one.

While incorporating scene construction and visual coherence enabled by Dreamina, the film positions AI imagery as a means to bring the story into being—aiming for an immersive narrative experience rather than a purely technical showcase.

Credits

Spiraling Anger – 怒螺旋
Artist / Director / Music / Visual：aratama 璞