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From Real-Life Covert War Mission to Explosive On-Screen Adaptation in Just a Week: How AI Short ‘The Decisive Moment’ Hopes to Become ‘Mission: Impossible’ for the News
The 5-minute short Decisive Moment: Spiders in the Sky tells the story of a Ukrainian covert operation inside Russia and took just one week to make
A documentary-maker and Cannes Lions-winning commercials director whose film “Nollywood Babylon” premiered in Sundance in 2009, Mallal had spent the last two years “dabbling in AI.” But it was only when Google launched its latest AI video generator Veo3 at the end of May that he thought he had the tools to “make something that looked like a big budget Netflix documentary and turn it around as fast as possible.” “Spiders in the Sky” was made using Veo3, OpenAI’s Sora and MidJourney, with Mallal feeding in replicated images that had been put out in the press by Ukraine from the mission, plus details already available — such as those of the Russian bases — alongside the AI tools’ own search and incredible specific prompt capabilities. These films, of course, are dealing with very real and highly sensitive geo-political situations and, unlike documentaries or most narrative retellings, are being made and released while events are still actually unfolding and on-the-ground facts are still blurred.
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