Synthetic cinema needs human pacing.
The film's AI image world creates atmosphere and instability; the score gives that world a pulse the audience can follow.
case study / AI film / original score
Gurbet
An AI short film scored, sound designed, and composed by Sam Brukhman for a film festival context, positioned between cinematic storytelling, synthetic image-making, and human musical judgment.
Artistic question
What does human scoring do inside an AI-generated image world? Gurbet places original composition against synthetic cinema, giving the film a human contour of breath, tension, memory, and emotional time.
The score is not decoration after the image. It is the human grammar that tells the viewer where to place attention, when to trust the image, and when to feel the machine-world bend toward something personal.
Experience
Music as emotional continuity.
Sound design and composition connect the film's shifting visual logic into a single felt line.
A film made for an AI-native context.
Gurbet belongs beside the speaking and art-tech work because it asks the same central question: what stays human when the image is synthetic?
Film stills
Selected frames from the film show the visual world the score has to hold: fogged civic space, ritual architecture, synthetic memory, and bodies moving through impossible rooms.
Media
Project details
- AI film / original score and composition / film festival
- Built for a Runway Film Festival context
- Moving-image excerpt featured in Listen/Experience
- Original score by Sam Brukhman
- Composition by Sam Brukhman
- Sound design by Sam Brukhman
- Directed and Visualized by Violeta Valcheva
- Video editing by Sabby Rosenblatt
- Short-form AI cinema with human musical authorship
- Sound as the emotional continuity inside synthetic imagery
- Film score work aligned with Sam's art and technology practice