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Where poetry and image merge: AI pioneer Boris Eldagsen and Berlin band INFAMIS collaborate for the video premiere of ‘Blinden’ (=’The Blind’).

Berlin’s music and art scene merge in a unique collaboration between renowned AI artist Boris Eldagsen and Berlin band Infamis. Eldagsen has created a powerful black and white video for Infamis’ new song ‘Blinden’, which describes a person losing eyesight - physically or symbolically.

The collaboration between Infamis and Eldagsen is rooted in a shared passion for poetic enigma. The haunting power of Infamis’ texts finds its visual counterpart in Eldagsen’s surreal, dream-like video art. Together they create a multi-sensory experience that invites the audience to lose themselves in the shadows and ambiguities of words and images.

Infamis, founded in 1987, have always been known for their poetic, melancholic lyrics and a sound that combines a cinematic expanse with the dark undercurrents of urban life. Their music – ‘a world somewhere between the soundtrack of a spaghetti western and a nightmarish ride through a run-down metropolis’ – has earned them a loyal fan base and the admiration of filmmaker Wim Wenders, who released their album ‘Im Westen Der Himmel’ in 2013.

The video was created with AI. Eldagsen used Midjourney to create the images, Runway to animate the AI images and Adobe Premiere for the editing.

  • Boris Eldagsen
    Director
  • Boris Eldagsen
    Writer
  • Boris Eldagsen
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Music Video
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 24 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 1, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    German
  • Shooting Format:
    AI video
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • "Promptoscape" Mingshen Art Museum
    Shanghai
    China
    July 30, 2025
    Asian Premiere
Director Biography - Boris Eldagsen


Berlin-based German artist Boris Eldagsen (*1970) studied photography and visual arts at the Art Academy of Mainz, conceptual art and intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague and fine art the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication Hyderabad, India. In addition, he studied philosophy at the Universities of Cologne and Mainz. 2013, he participated in a Roger Ballen Masterclass.
His photomedia work has been shown internationally in institutions and festivals including Fridericianum Kassel, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, CCP Melbourne, ACP Sydney, EMAF Osnabrück, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Edinburgh Art Festival, FORMAT Festival Derby, Encontros da Imagem Braga, FestFoto Porto Alegre, Photolux Biennale Lucca, Singapore International Photography Festival, Indian Photo Festival Hyderabad, Chobi Mela Dhaka, PhotoVisa Krasnodar, Noorderlicht Groningen, Voies Off Festival Arles, Media Forum Moscow, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, WRO Media Art Biennale Wroclaw, Biennale Le Havre and Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth.
Since 2004, Boris has lectured at Victorian College of the Arts / University Melbourne, Photography Studies College Melbourne, Akademie für Bildende Künste Mainz and Hochschule Furtwangen.
In addition, he has given workshops for Goethe Institut Gulf-Region, Pathshala South Asian Media Institute Dhaka, Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny d'Olot, Centre for Contemporary Photography Melbourne, RMIT University Melbourne, Monash University Melbourne, PhotoWerkBerlin, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt and Westlicht Wien.
Boris has been awarded the „Prix Voies Off“ in Arles (2013) and the „Photography Show Award“ at the FORMAT Festival in Derby (2015). Since 2014, Boris is a member of Deutsche Fotografische Akademie.
From 1989 to 2022, photography was the basis of my artistic work. Since 2022, this focus has been on promptography (AI-generated images).
I am not trying to copy my previously developed visual language, but to explore new avenues that were not possible for me as a photographic artist. With the help of AI, I can draw freely on my imagination and incorporate my experience as an artist into the prompt. AI image generators are the tool I have been waiting for without knowing it.
For me, the diffusion models have replaced the camera - but my artistic focus on the collective unconscious and my psychological approach have remained. Since the training material of the AIs is a mirror of humanity, I can now work with the "collective unconscious" (C.G. Jung) to depict it.

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AI is a tool for an inner journey.