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Le Drip

"Absolute cinema". “Truly breathtaking”. "The world needs to see this".

A painterly animated short about my about my last day on earth, told in living oil paintings.

Le Drip was made primarily in Flora — a node-based platform where we built the shot-by-shot workflows and prompting structure. Inside Flora we used Nano Banana, Claude, and Seedance. We used Runway for storyboarding and video generation. Adobe was used for video and sound, and Leonardo for additional video. We also built a custom end-credits tool in Google AI Studio, and used ElevenLabs for the voice transformation and some sound effects.

While this is an AI-generated film, every creative decision was made by humans. The original concept came from screenwriter Jessie Hughes during the pandemic, and the film was brought to life by Alex Naghavi and Ezra Li, two AI filmmakers who met at the inaugural Google Flow Sessions residency in late 2025. Story, screenplay, performance, editing, sound design, foley, color, and art direction — all by humans.

  • Alex Naghavi
    Director
  • Ezra Li
    Director
  • Ezra Li
    Writer
  • Alex Naghavi
    Producer
  • Ezra Li
    Key Cast
    "Le Fish"
  • Jessie Hughes
    Story by
  • Alex Naghavi
    Art Direction by
  • Laurent Delforge
    Sound Design
  • Olivier Thys
    Foley
  • Alex Naghavi
    Generative Artists
  • Ezra Li
    Generative Artists
  • James Foundoulis
    Color
  • Alex Naghavi
    Title Design
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Drama, Dark Comedy, Animation
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 39 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 22, 2026
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    AI
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • AI Film Awards French Riviera
    Cannes
    Official Selection
  • Altera Festival
    Atlanta
    Official Selection
  • Bucharest AI Film Festival
    Romania
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Alex Naghavi, Ezra Li

Alex Naghavi is an award-winning AI filmmaker and Creative Director whose practice approaches generative tools as an extension of design, prototyping new visual languages and narrative forms. With a background in product design, branding, and technology, her films are recognized for their curated visual taste and exacting craft. Her shorts include Le Drip, Railbound, Gentle, Feast, and Depths, with over 80 festival awards and selections between them. Gentle was recognized by Oscar-winning director George Miller at the OMNI Film Festival. Naghavi is named to the Top 50 Women AI Filmmakers and Top 50 Women AI Artists, ADWEEK's Creative 100, the Eames Institute Curious 100, and is a Runway Gen:48 winner. She was part of the inaugural Google Flow Sessions cohort, is a Runway Creative Partner, and serves as a juror for the Leonardo Imagination Fund.

Ezra Li is an interdisciplinary filmmaker and performer whose work places human performance at the center of emerging technologies and AI-driven storytelling. His award-winning short HOME received the Grand Prix at Runway Gen:48 (Fourth Edition). He was selected for the inaugural Google Flow Sessions cohort and is among the first cohort of filmmakers at Adobe GenFilm Lab, where he contributes to the development of forward-thinking creative tools and workflows for artists. He also serves as a Performance Lead at Authors First, helping develop production pipelines while advancing nuanced, emotionally precise AI-driven performances.

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