Feast

Feast was created in just 48 hours for Runway’s Gen:48 AI film challenge—a tight timeframe that demanded speed, instinct, and total immersion. The process was raw and fast: ideating, designing, generating, editing, and refining all within two days. I used tools like ChatGPT to help shape the concept, Midjourney for visual worldbuilding, Runway Gen-4 for motion, and Topaz AI to refine final outputs. That intense constraint shaped the final piece—every frame had to carry weight, every choice had to serve the tone.

At its heart, Feast is about feminine rage—the quiet kind that simmers until it breaks. It speaks to the exhaustion of being socialized to endure, to soften, to serve. It’s about the moment when that conditioning collapses. When giving becomes unsustainable. When care turns into fury, and silence sharpens into something else entirely.

Visually, I was inspired by the grandeur of opera, Baroque and Renaissance tableaus, and religious iconography like The Last Supper—but filtered through a modern horror lens. The divine spotlight became a recurring visual metaphor—as though something higher was watching, judging, or indifferent. I wanted the images to feel rich and symbolic, yet unsettling; sacred, but corrupted; dramatic, but restrained.

—Alex Naghavi