{"id":5837,"date":"2026-02-09T10:41:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T01:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aratama.io\/en\/?p=5837"},"modified":"2026-02-09T10:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T01:43:01","slug":"dreamina-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aratama.io\/en\/news\/dreamina-award\/","title":{"rendered":"aratama \u749e awarded Second Place (Runner-up) at the international AI film contest \u201cBRAVE NEW BEGINNINGS\u201d (Escape AI \u00d7 Dreamina)"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-white ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/aratama.io\/en\/news\/dreamina-award\/#Award_Announcement\" >Award Announcement<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/aratama.io\/en\/news\/dreamina-award\/#About_the_Award-Winning_Film\" >About the Award-Winning Film<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/aratama.io\/en\/news\/dreamina-award\/#Context_Within_the_Contest\" >Context Within the Contest<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/aratama.io\/en\/news\/dreamina-award\/#Credits\" >Credits<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/aratama.io\/en\/news\/dreamina-award\/#Related_Links\" >Related Links<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Award_Announcement\"><\/span>Award Announcement<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6124\" src=\"https:\/\/aratama.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aratama_COLOR_2.webp\" alt=\"Escape \u00d7 Dreamina \u2013 BRAVE NEW BEGINNINGS\" width=\"3248\" height=\"1655\" \/>AI artist and filmmaker aratama \u749e has been awarded <strong>Second Place (Runner-up)<\/strong> in the global AI filmmaking contest <a href=\"https:\/\/escape.ai\/contest\/dreamina-122025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><u>\u201cEscape \u00d7 Dreamina \u2013 BRAVE NEW BEGINNINGS\u201d<\/u><\/a>, co-hosted by Escape.ai and Dreamina.<\/p>\n<p>This international film challenge evaluates narrative strength, creativity, and innovative use of AI tools, and drew participation from AI filmmakers and visual storytellers worldwide.<br \/>\nA key characteristic of the contest is its emphasis on narrative-driven works that go beyond pure visual spectacle\u2014leveraging Dreamina\u2019s strengths such as multi-frame coherence and character\/style consistency.<\/p>\n<p>For this competition, aratama \u749e entered the cinematic music video \u201cSpiraling Anger \u2013 \u6012\u87ba\u65cb.\u201d The film was highly regarded for both its expressive depth and narrative quality, and was selected as one of the <strong>Top 3 winning films<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"About_the_Award-Winning_Film\"><\/span>About the Award-Winning Film<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ck9s5x3Yo4Y?si=ObiGE7XazNKMBXjL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Spiraling Anger \u2013 \u6012\u87ba\u65cb<\/h3>\n<p>(aratama \u749e \/ Escape AI \u00d7 Dreamina Contest Film)<\/p>\n<p>This cinematic music video explores the structural nature of anger\u2014how it circulates, accumulates, and repeats within human society.<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nThoughts repeating without a clear cause, emotions amplified without an identifiable origin, and systems that keep moving even after they are forgotten\u2014<br \/>\nanger is perceived not as a single event, but as acceleration, dissonance, and unresolved pressure.<\/p>\n<p>The audiovisual perspective expands from an intimate, bodily scale to nature, the Earth, the cosmos, and ultimately a worldview in which all things coexist.<br \/>\nThe imagery of plants multiplying abnormally\u2014seemingly overtaking traces of conflict\u2014serves as a symbolic suggestion that destruction and regeneration can coexist beyond human intention.<\/p>\n<p>Music and visuals are tightly synchronized, with rhythm itself functioning as the engine of the narrative.<br \/>\nMinimal, repeating lyrics operate as an AI-mediated form of language that extends beyond conventional semantics, inviting meaning to be completed within the viewer.<br \/>\nTracing the looping thought patterns that sustain anger, the work ultimately leaves a single question behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014This film quietly sings of \u201ccoexistence.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Context_Within_the_Contest\"><\/span>Context Within the Contest<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cSpiraling Anger \u2013 \u6012\u87ba\u65cb\u201d responds to the theme \u201cBRAVE NEW BEGINNINGS\u201d by presenting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>regeneration beyond conflict<\/li>\n<li>transformation from repetitive emotional structures<\/li>\n<li>a worldview where destruction and renewal coexist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>as an integrated experience in which narrative, visuals, and music operate as one.<\/p>\n<p>While incorporating scene construction and visual coherence enabled by Dreamina, the film positions AI imagery as a means to bring the story into being\u2014aiming for an immersive narrative experience rather than a purely technical showcase.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Credits\"><\/span>Credits<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Spiraling Anger \u2013 \u6012\u87ba\u65cb<br \/>\nArtist \/ Director \/ Music \/ Visual\uff1aaratama \u749e<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Related_Links\"><\/span>Related Links<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Official contest page<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/escape.ai\/contest\/dreamina-122025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><u>https:\/\/escape.ai\/contest\/dreamina-122025<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Film (YouTube)<br \/>\nSpiraling Anger \u6012\u87ba\u65cb \u2013 aratama \u749e<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ck9s5x3Yo4Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><u>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ck9s5x3Yo4Y<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkcardcontainer\"><div class=\"linkcard\"><div class=\"lkc-internal-wrap\"><a class=\"lkc-link no_icon\" href=\"https:\/\/aratama.io\/en\/news\/dreamina\/\" data-lkc-id=\"2\"><div class=\"lkc-card\"><div class=\"lkc-info\"><div class=\"lkc-favicon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/s2\/favicons?domain=aratama.io\/en\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/div><div class=\"lkc-domain\">aratama.io\/en<\/div><\/div><div class=\"lkc-content\"><figure class=\"lkc-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lkc-thumbnail-img\" src=\"\/\/aratama.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SpiralingAnger2000-150x150.webp\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"lkc-title\">aratama \u749e Completes Entry to the Escape AI \u00d7 Dreamina Global AI Film Contest<\/div><div class=\"lkc-date\">&#x1f552;&#xfe0f;2026-01-20<\/div><div class=\"lkc-excerpt\">OverviewAI artist and filmmaker aratama \u749e has completed an entry to the global AI filmmaking contest\u201cEscape \u00d7 Dreamina \u2013 Brave New Beginnings,\u201d jointly hosted by Escape.ai and Dreamina.This contest is an international film challenge that evaluates narrative strength, creativity, and innovative use of AI tools. It calls for narrative works that go beyond explaining events, instead allowing meaning to emerge through the viewing experience itself, leveraging Dreamina\u2019s strengths such as multi-f...<\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Award Announcement AI artist and filmmaker aratama \u749e has been awarded Second Place (Runner-up) in the global AI filmmaking contest \u201cEscape \u00d7 Dreamina \u2013 BRAVE NEW BEGINNINGS\u201d, co-hosted by Escape.ai and Dreamina. 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