Olivio Sarikas begins with Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and asks how its existential uncertainty might become a visually strange short film without simply copying the play's barren-tree setting. ChatGPT, Midjourney and other generative tools supply images, music and motion tests while the livestream exposes the full trial-and-error process.
The experiment shows how quickly familiar objects impose unintended meanings. A phone booth suggests failed communication, a cross points toward death or religion, a dog creates companionship, and ruined buildings imply a lost civilization. Even visually striking generations can therefore miss the conceptual brief because their symbolism is too narrow or obvious.
The strongest explorations use scale, negative space and repetition: a small figure beneath an immense sky, a blank concrete wall, an unreachable door, endless office desks and fractal structures. Each iteration is judged not only for visual appeal but for what its composition, perspective and objects communicate to a viewer.
Sarikas concludes that AI can produce options at remarkable speed, but it does not remove the difficult work of art. The creator still has to establish the question, reject attractive but irrelevant outputs, refine the visual language and select an image or sequence whose meaning supports the intended story.
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