EXTINCT - (History is written by winners)

What are a cat, a dog, and a horse doing on the set of a documentary?
In a timeless future, anthropomorphized animals are interviewed to investigate the mysterious causes of human extinction.
“EXTINCT – History Is Written by the Winners” is a surreal and ironic dystopia that attempts to take stock of humanity’s journey. Humans are represented by a puppet modeled after the film’s actual director: a fragile, grotesque figure already pushed to the margins of history. Through interviews with the “surviving” animals (in reality, all species are in danger of extinction or nearly so), the film speculates—lightly but sharply—on the possible reasons behind humanity’s disappearance: climate change, uncontrolled technology, laziness, starvation, loss of connection with nature, overconsumption of resources, war, and nuclear annihilation. These themes are filtered through exaggeration, clichés, and openly surreal situations.
The visual and musical pacing mirrors this trajectory: a slow, silent beginning in a world without humans gives way to a chaotic, intense, and musically dense “human” phase, before transitioning into the post-human interviews and concluding with a final, resonant silence.
The entire film is generated using artificial intelligence: ChatGPT for images and narrative development, Kling AI for video, ElevenLabs for voices, and CapCut for editing and subtitle generation.