A ship that lay on the seabed for eight hundred years, and the people who lifted it. Three short documentaries on how underwater archaeology brings a former life back, one object at a time. Episode 3, Not Over, is the one shown here.
generated imagery
Every shot but the diagrams below began as a still frame and was then set in motion: the sea surface, the lifting gear, the wreck below, the exhibition hall. The closing card reads, plainly, “This film's imagery is AI-generated.” It is not hidden.
computed diagrams
The explanatory passages could not use generated imagery. How hull planks lose water, how they split, how the salt is slowly drawn out: those had to be accurate. So they were drawn frame by frame in Python with Pillow, at one metre to twenty-eight pixels, with water content, cracks and colour all computed from the same parameters, thirty frames a second, and handed back to the editor.
Three frames of the same plank. The bar on the right is the water level, from full to empty.
