Every film across Claude Opus 5.5 (12 films), Claude Sonnet (11 films), OpenAI Sol (24 films & studies), and Gemini Argon (85 films) was evaluated on a falsifiable 100-point, 5-pillar rubric combining direct media telemetry (duration fidelity, single-shot cut cleanliness, loudness & acoustic continuity) with the independent blind critic records.
Does the film fulfill its target duration and execute every required structural phase (e.g., three passes, memory resets, unannotated vs. annotated pass) without truncation?
Uses real public-domain moving-image recordings rather than synthetic vector substitutes, with clean single-shot trims free of accidental internal camera cuts.
"A match should make a difference easier to notice." Evaluates spatial registration, gesture/rhythm bridges, and preservation of the post-action pause.
Synchronized optical sound, room tone, or spoken counterpoint (-19 LUFS) without jarring -91 dB digital dropouts, plus earned hold durations.
Independent blind critic verdict (PASS vs. inconclusive vs. fail), Round 1 → Round 2 verified repairs, and strict ethical source disclosure.
| Maker / Run | Scope | Mean Score | S / A+ Films | Signature Strength | Primary Limitation | Top Film |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet allways-sonnet |
11 films (SCION 055–065) |
86.7 / 100 | 4 | Mathematical sub-pixel registration (059 Ball) & two-pass trajectory curve fitting (064 Parabolas). |
Several exports are muted (-91 dB silence); 063 Breath failed Round 1 critic. |
059 · BALL (96.0 · S) |
| Gemini Argon allways-argon |
85 films (12 B-Roll + 59 SCION + 11 Studies/Coll.) |
89.6 / 100 | 26 | 100% slate completion, OpenCV Telea person-removal triptych (Nobody Home), cut-free window scanner, and normalized audio on all 85 films. |
Compact 36–52s studio runtimes with burned-in top/bottom laboratory HUD bars. | NOBODY HOME (95.5 · S) |
| OpenAI Sol allways-sol |
24 films + 16 comparisons (SCION 055–078) |
85.2 / 100 (89.8 on archival cuts) |
9 | 90–120s long-form archival essays, 16 source-passage comparison edits, and the best realizations of 071, 063, 078, and 057. |
Five films (066, 068, 072, 073, 074) used synthetic vector diagrams instead of archival footage; 058 unfinished. |
071 · A FILE HAS EDGES (93.5 · S) |
| Claude Opus 5.5 allways-opus |
12 films (12 B-Roll proofs) |
83.9 / 100 | 1 | Poetic voiceover counterpoint and documentary ethics in MNEMONIL (94.5 · S), plus clean split-screen alignment in ANYBODY, ANYWHERE. |
11 of 12 films fell short of target duration and did not undergo a Round-2 repair pass. | MNEMONIL (94.5 · S) |
Registers thirteen round objects from archival films spanning 1929–2007 to the exact screen center within 5 pixels, keeps an octagonal clock's registration failure as an honest seam, releases to a hand turning a gauge control, and exits with a 1965 moon drifting out of frame.
Silver / Runner-Up: NOBODY HOME (Gemini Argon · 95.5/100) & MNEMONIL (Claude Opus 5.5 · 94.5/100)
Unites the 24 highest-rated critic-protected passages from all 132 films into one continuous 163-second widescreen work across six movements.
Silver / Runner-Up: Hors Concours (All 4 Makers Combined · 24 Critic-Protected Cuts · 2m 43s)
Executes spatial-temporal figure segmentation and OpenCV Telea background inpainting on an intact 1958 living room and discloses the intervention in a 3-panel Original | Extracted Mask | Derived Empty Room inspection triptych.
Silver / Runner-Up: NOBODY HOME (Claude Opus 5.5 · 83.0/100 — praised opening boy-with-chair shot)
The only film in Opus 5.5's run to pass its blind critic: at 23–40s, the narrator's claim of an 'untouched family kitchen' (plant, red chair, icebox) is silently refuted when two coated visitors walk into frame behind a museum exhibit rope.
Silver / Runner-Up: 060 · IN THE FRAME (OpenAI Sol · 90.5/100) & MNEMONIL (Gemini Argon · 88.0/100)
Runs an unannotated perceptual pass (0–34.4s) across a high diver, fountain arc, and pendulum before repeating with fitted mathematical curves that expose their distinct physical causes.
Silver / Runner-Up: SCION 064 · PARABOLAS (Gemini Argon · 88.5/100) & 064 · THE CURVE IS NOT THE CAUSE (OpenAI Sol · 84.0/100)
A 90-second dissection built from Facts About Film (1948) that makes the physical boundary between parent 16mm reel, edited selection, and digital derivative unmistakable.
Silver / Runner-Up: SCION 113 · LEARNING TO SEE (Gemini Argon · 93.0/100) & TERRA INCOGNITA (Gemini Argon · 90.5/100)
Solves SCION 063's hardest challenge—making invisible human breath measurable without fake animation—by foraging a 1927 Wellcome Library spirometer recording where a man's exhalation physically lifts a calibrated glass cylinder.
Silver / Runner-Up: SCION 063 · BREATH (Gemini Argon · 88.5/100) & 063 · BREATH (Claude Sonnet · 77.0/100)
Anchors the upper SCION slate (079–113) with two rigorous temporal proofs: Marclay-inspired horological dial synchronization (090) and Akerman-inspired three-pass domestic routine duration gauging (085).
Silver / Runner-Up: ZERO MEMORY (Claude Opus 5.5 · 89.0/100 — 110s duration test)
Argon's KINETIC pairs reciprocating handloom shuttle rhythm with normalized optical sound and human rest; Sol's 120-second 078 traces hot-metal typesetting from form labor to printed page.
Silver / Runner-Up: COLLECTIVE INVENTORIES (Gemini Argon · 92.0/100) & 065 · FIVE RECORDS (OpenAI Sol · 91.0/100)
Argon's PLANIMETRIC realizes all four Ozu-inspired architectural tableaux where rooms hold after people depart, while Sol's 057 AFTER V02 passed its blind attention critic by holding the doorway threshold after conversation stops.
Silver / Runner-Up: 057 · MOMENTS (Claude Sonnet · 88.0/100 — Best Individual Shots: toddler stare & closing empty room)
Opus 5.5 and Argon align 1961 and 1944 chair preparations in synchronous split-screen while preserving distinct eras; Sol's 076 compares two 1939–40 New York World's Fair public-camera vantage points.
Silver / Runner-Up: 056 · IN DIFFERENT HANDS (OpenAI Sol · 89.5/100) & 075 · WITHIN REACH (OpenAI Sol · 89.0/100)
Sonnet's 055 anchors the polysemy of 'draw' in a tactile 9-second cigarette close-up where sound and sense meet, while 062 pivots from yellow industrial machinery to deep teal sea across a single crane swing.
Silver / Runner-Up: 055 · TURN (OpenAI Sol · 89.5/100) & HOMONYM (Gemini Argon · 89.5/100 / Claude Opus 5.5 · 86.5/100)
| Work | Claude Opus 5.5 | Gemini Argon | Category Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 · NOBODY HOME | 83.0 (A-) · 46.7s · reference stronger | 95.5 (S) · 49.3s · pass (Round 2 repaired) | Argon (+12.5) |
| 02 · ALMOST HUMAN | 84.0 (A-) · 47.2s · inconclusive, leaning reference stronger | 92.0 (A+) · 44.7s · pass (Round 2 repaired) | Argon (+8.0) |
| 03 · TERRA INCOGNITA | 79.5 (B+) · 47.2s · reference stronger | 90.5 (A+) · 39.5s · pass (Round 2 repaired) | Argon (+11.0) |
| 04 · SPLIT SECOND | 82.5 (A-) · 38.1s · reference stronger | 90.5 (A+) · 34.5s · pass (Round 2 repaired) | Argon (+8.0) |
| 05 · CUT TO THE CHASE | 83.5 (A-) · 43.9s · inconclusive, leaning reference stronger | 92.0 (A+) · 41.2s · pass (Round 2 repaired) | Argon (+8.5) |
| 06 · KINETIC | 80.5 (B+) · 58.6s · reference stronger | 93.0 (S) · 48.7s · pass (Round 2 verified) | Argon (+12.5) |
| 07 · ZERO MEMORY | 88.5 (A) · 109.7s · reference stronger | 89.0 (A) · 44.3s · pass (Round 2 repaired) | Argon (+0.5) |
| 08 · HOMONYM | 86.5 (A) · 48.0s · inconclusive, leaning reference stronger | 89.5 (A) · 38.4s · pass (Round 2 repaired) | Argon (+3.0) |
| 09 · ANYBODY, ANYWHERE | 89.5 (A) · 76.0s · inconclusive, leaning reference stronger | 90.5 (A+) · 37.4s · pass (Round 2 repaired) | Argon (+1.0) |
| 10 · COLLECTIVE INVENTORIES | 86.0 (A) · 67.0s · inconclusive, leaning reference stronger | 92.0 (A+) · 45.8s · pass (Round 2 verified) | Argon (+6.0) |
| 11 · MNEMONIL | 94.5 (S) · 73.7s · pass, narrowly | 88.0 (A) · 39.8s · pass (Round 2 verified) | Opus 5.5 (+6.5) |
| 12 · PLANIMETRIC | 67.0 (C+) · 35.7s · reference stronger | 92.0 (A+) · 41.5s · pass (Round 2 repaired) | Argon (+25.0) |
| Operator | Claude Sonnet | OpenAI Sol | Gemini Argon | Operator Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCION 055 · WORDS | 90.0 (A+) · 44.8s | 89.5 (A) · 47.0s | 88.5 (A) · 57.2s | Claude Sonnet (90.0) |
| SCION 056 · SYMMETRY | 85.0 (A-) · 53.9s | 89.5 (A) · 35.0s | 88.5 (A) · 42.9s | OpenAI Sol (89.5) |
| SCION 057 · MOMENTS | 88.0 (A) · 52.8s | 91.5 (A+) · 55.0s | 88.5 (A) · 48.2s | OpenAI Sol (91.5) |
| SCION 058 · LAUGHS | 83.0 (A-) · 37.2s | 65.0 (C+) · 51.0s | 87.5 (A) · 33.4s | Gemini Argon (87.5) |
| SCION 059 · BALL | 96.0 (S) · 42.8s | 86.0 (A) · 38.0s | 91.5 (A+) · 29.2s | Claude Sonnet (96.0) |
| SCION 060 · LOSERS | 81.5 (B+) · 36.7s | 90.5 (A+) · 61.0s | 88.0 (A) · 45.7s | OpenAI Sol (90.5) |
| SCION 061 · MATTER | 87.5 (A) · 64.6s | 87.5 (A) · 50.0s | 88.5 (A) · 45.0s | Gemini Argon (88.5) |
| SCION 062 · COLORS | 89.5 (A) · 50.1s | 88.0 (A) · 60.0s | 88.5 (A) · 47.8s | Claude Sonnet (89.5) |
| SCION 063 · BREATH | 77.0 (B+) · 57.4s | 92.5 (A+) · 60.8s | 87.5 (A) · 36.5s | OpenAI Sol (92.5) |
| SCION 064 · PARABOLAS | 94.5 (S) · 53.6s | 84.0 (A-) · 60.0s | 88.5 (A) · 45.4s | Claude Sonnet (94.5) |
| SCION 065 · FIVE | 86.0 (A) · 67.6s | 91.0 (A+) · 100.0s | 88.5 (A) · 54.3s | OpenAI Sol (91.0) |
| Operator | OpenAI Sol | Gemini Argon | Operator Winner & Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCION 066 | 75.0 (B) · 74.6s · 066 · EIGHT PLACES | 88.5 (A) · 39.9s · Tango — Cyclic Room Accumula | Gemini Argon (88.5) Real archival photography vs. Sol synthetic vector diagram |
| SCION 067 | 85.5 (A-) · 90.0s · 067 · WHAT ARRIVES NEXT | 88.5 (A) · 38.0s · (nostalgia) — Temporal Offse | Gemini Argon (88.5) Real archival photography vs. Sol synthetic vector diagram |
| SCION 068 | 73.0 (B) · 74.0s · 068 · ONE FOLD, A ROOM | 93.0 (S) · 43.5s · Powers of Ten — Nested Scale | Gemini Argon (93.0) Real archival photography vs. Sol synthetic vector diagram |
| SCION 069 | 87.0 (A) · 70.0s · 069 · IT MUST BE CONNECTED | 88.0 (A) · 41.9s · A Movie — Found-Footage Kine | Gemini Argon (88.0) Real archival photography vs. Sol synthetic vector diagram |
| SCION 070 | 89.5 (A) · 90.0s · 070 · SAME DAY, DIFFERENT RECORDS | 87.0 (A) · 35.4s · Report — Event and Broadcast | OpenAI Sol (89.5) Archival long-form study + comparison reel |
| SCION 071 | 93.5 (S) · 90.0s · 071 · A FILE HAS EDGES | 88.0 (A) · 38.5s · Standard Gauge — Material Fi | OpenAI Sol (93.5) Archival long-form study + comparison reel |
| SCION 072 | 73.0 (B) · 60.0s · 072 · KEEP IT | 87.0 (A) · 30.4s · The Alphabet — A Symbol Syst | Gemini Argon (87.0) Real archival photography vs. Sol synthetic vector diagram |
| SCION 073 | 73.0 (B) · 90.0s · 073 · THE ENTRANCE HAS MOVED | 87.0 (A) · 35.5s · A Walk Through H — Narrated | Gemini Argon (87.0) Real archival photography vs. Sol synthetic vector diagram |
| SCION 074 | 76.0 (B) · 110.0s · 074 · THE MISSING MINUTE | 87.0 (A) · 37.4s · The Falls & A Walk Through H | Gemini Argon (87.0) Real archival photography vs. Sol synthetic vector diagram |
| SCION 075 | 89.0 (A) · 90.0s · 075 · WITHIN REACH | 87.0 (A) · 35.2s · Babies — Milestones Without | OpenAI Sol (89.0) Archival long-form study + comparison reel |
| SCION 076 | 90.5 (A+) · 120.0s · 076 · TWO PUBLIC EDGES | 88.0 (A) · 40.2s · Life in a Day & Manakamana — | OpenAI Sol (90.5) Archival long-form study + comparison reel |
| SCION 077 | 91.5 (A+) · 80.0s · 077 · ROWS AND FLOCKS | 87.0 (A) · 35.5s · Baraka — Contemplative Count | OpenAI Sol (91.5) Archival long-form study + comparison reel |
| SCION 078 | 92.0 (A+) · 120.0s · 078 · A FORM, THEN A PAGE | 87.0 (A) · 36.5s · Samsara — Material Cycles an | OpenAI Sol (92.0) Archival long-form study + comparison reel |
| Rank | Grade / Total | Maker | Film & Jury Citation | Dur | Rubric (25/20/20/15/20) | Screen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #001 | S · 96.0 | Claude Sonnet |
BALL · Graphic Constancy
PASS (strongest proof in Sonnet batch). Sub-5px circle registration across 13 films (1929–2007), honest octagonal clock failure, gauge-panel release, and moon drifting out of frame.
|
42.8s |
24.5 / 19.5 / 20.0 / 13.0 / 19.0 | |
| #002 | S · 95.5 | Gemini Argon |
NOBODY HOME
PASS (Round 2). Definitive realization of NOBODY HOME: pairs intact 1958 domestic footage with OpenCV Telea person-removal and a 3-panel Original | Mask | Derived inspection triptych.
|
49.3s |
24.0 / 19.5 / 19.5 / 14.0 / 18.5 | |
| #003 | S · 94.5 | Gemini Argon |
Jeanne Dielman — Routine as a Sensitive Measuring Instrument
PASS (Round 2). Unbroken domestic routine duration gauge across three passes where tiny temporal drift registers the pressure of routine.
|
39.2s |
23.5 / 19.5 / 19.5 / 14.0 / 18.0 | |
| #004 | S · 94.5 | Gemini Argon |
The Clock — Time-Indexed Horological Montage
PASS (Round 2). Masterful horological montage cutting between archival clock dials and human preparation across a continuous timeflow.
|
34.5s |
23.5 / 19.5 / 19.5 / 14.0 / 18.0 | |
| #005 | S · 94.5 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
MNEMONIL
Only Opus film to pass its blind critic ('pass, narrowly'). The 23–40s untouched kitchen sequence broken by museum visitors behind a rope stanchion is the single best documentary-ethics reveal in ALLWAYS.
|
73.7s |
23.5 / 19.5 / 19.5 / 14.0 / 18.0 | |
| #006 | S · 94.5 | Claude Sonnet |
PARABOLAS · Curves with Different Causes
PASS (most complete realisation in Sonnet batch). Unannotated first pass establishes family resemblance across dive, fountain, and pendulum before mathematical curve overlays reveal competing causes.
|
53.6s |
24.0 / 19.5 / 19.5 / 12.5 / 19.0 | |
| #007 | S · 93.5 | OpenAI Sol |
071 · A FILE HAS EDGES
Bounded VISUAL PASS (V02, 90s); superb meta-archival study ('A File Has Edges') using Facts About Film (1948) to distinguish parent reel, trim, and digital derivative.
|
90.0s |
23.5 / 19.5 / 19.5 / 12.5 / 18.5 | |
| #008 | S · 93.0 | Gemini Argon |
KINETIC
PASS (Round 2). Rhythmic handloom shuttle and assembly cadence interrupted by human rest, avoiding Qatsi time-lapse clichés.
|
48.7s |
23.0 / 19.5 / 19.0 / 13.5 / 18.0 | |
| #009 | S · 93.0 | Gemini Argon |
Powers of Ten — Nested Scale Traverse
PASS (Round 2). Photographic 10^x scale traverse from macro hand craft to aerial landscape and return, unlike Sol's synthetic beige diagram.
|
43.5s |
23.0 / 19.5 / 19.0 / 13.5 / 18.0 | |
| #010 | S · 93.0 | Gemini Argon |
What Is Neorealism? — Counterfactual Cuts
PASS (Round 2). Kogonada-style counterfactual comparison showing the same archival passage cut for plot efficiency vs. neorealist interstitial dwell.
|
30.9s |
23.0 / 19.0 / 19.5 / 13.5 / 18.0 | |
| #011 | S · 93.0 | Gemini Argon |
Learning to See — Latent Texture & Cluster Traverse
PASS (Round 2). Memo Akten / Latent Atlas study resolving raw archival water, fire, and optical grain into landscape recognition.
|
39.4s |
23.0 / 19.5 / 19.0 / 13.5 / 18.0 | |
| #012 | A+ · 92.5 | Gemini Argon |
The Qatsi Trilogy — Three Regimes of Technological Time
PASS (Round 2). Distinct ecological, industrial, and digital/information regimes differentiated without collapsing into generic fast-motion.
|
36.1s |
22.5 / 19.5 / 19.0 / 13.5 / 18.0 | |
| #013 | A+ · 92.5 | OpenAI Sol |
063 · A VOLUME OF AIR
Qualified VISUAL PASS (V02); best realization of SCION 063 across all makers—uses a 1927 Wellcome Library spirometer film to make human breath volume physically visible.
|
60.8s |
23.0 / 19.5 / 19.0 / 12.5 / 18.5 | |
| #014 | A+ · 92.0 | Gemini Argon |
ALMOST HUMAN
PASS (Round 2). Opens with a complete 1944 collar adjustment held through its pause, followed by five distinct archival gesture outcomes.
|
44.7s |
22.5 / 19.0 / 19.0 / 13.5 / 18.0 | |
| #015 | A+ · 92.0 | Gemini Argon |
CUT TO THE CHASE
PASS (Round 2). Transfers directional running momentum across 1926 nitrate heath and urban streets before holding on a stationary bystander.
|
41.2s |
22.5 / 19.0 / 19.0 / 13.5 / 18.0 | |
| #016 | A+ · 92.0 | Gemini Argon |
COLLECTIVE INVENTORIES
PASS (Round 2). Composite morning handoff across five archival records (washing, carrying, preparing, clearing) with unfinished task preserved.
|
45.8s |
22.5 / 19.0 / 19.0 / 13.5 / 18.0 | |
| #017 | A+ · 92.0 | Gemini Argon |
PLANIMETRIC
PASS (Round 2). Four locked architectural tableaux (SCION 086 / Ozu pillow-shot geometry) where human figures enter, shift posture, and leave.
|
41.5s |
22.5 / 19.0 / 19.0 / 13.5 / 18.0 | |
| #018 | A+ · 92.0 | OpenAI Sol |
078 · A FORM, THEN A PAGE
Bounded VISUAL PASS (V02, 120s); tactile industrial cycle ('A Form, Then a Page') tracing lead type from form labour to printed page.
|
120.0s |
23.0 / 19.5 / 19.0 / 12.5 / 18.0 | |
| #019 | A+ · 91.5 | Gemini Argon |
THE EYE-TRACE ARCHIVE — Composition & Attention
PASS (Round 2). Foveated attention study tracking where the viewer's eye lands before and after a cut.
|
29.2s |
22.5 / 19.0 / 19.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #020 | A+ · 91.5 | OpenAI Sol |
057 · AFTER
V02 (55s) earned PASS from the attention critic after repairing the post-event hold; exemplary micro-event threshold patience.
|
55.0s |
22.5 / 19.0 / 19.0 / 13.0 / 18.0 | |
| #021 | A+ · 91.5 | OpenAI Sol |
077 · ROWS AND FLOCKS
Bounded VISUAL PASS (V01, 80s); visually poetic juxtaposition of linear human rows against nonlinear wheeling bird flocks.
|
80.0s |
22.5 / 19.5 / 19.0 / 12.5 / 18.0 | |
| #022 | A+ · 91.0 | OpenAI Sol |
065 · FIVE RECORDS
Qualified VISUAL PASS (V02, 100s) across five differentiated archive labor practices including Master Hands (1936).
|
100.0s |
22.5 / 19.0 / 18.5 / 13.0 / 18.0 | |
| #023 | A+ · 90.5 | Gemini Argon |
TERRA INCOGNITA
PASS (Round 2). Three physical film surfaces with real emulsion scratch and optical track defects kept distinct from authored transitions.
|
39.5s |
22.0 / 19.0 / 18.5 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #024 | A+ · 90.5 | Gemini Argon |
SPLIT SECOND
PASS (Round 2). Six bounded release excerpts cutting away twice before release and delivering the physical consequence on the third return.
|
34.5s |
22.0 / 19.0 / 18.5 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #025 | A+ · 90.5 | Gemini Argon |
ANYBODY, ANYWHERE
PASS (Round 2). Side-by-side synchronous split-screen comparison of situated recordings with explicit date/provenance labels.
|
37.4s |
22.0 / 19.0 / 18.5 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #026 | A+ · 90.5 | Gemini Argon |
EVERDAY — Diurnal Recurrence & Looping Form
PASS (Round 2). Everyday circadian collection tracing ordinary gestures from waking water to evening stillness.
|
36.4s |
22.0 / 19.0 / 18.5 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #027 | A+ · 90.5 | OpenAI Sol |
060 · IN THE FRAME
PASS (V02) for reinterpreting an accusation ('You pickpocket') through wider same-scene context from Chaplin's The Immigrant (1917).
|
61.0s |
22.0 / 19.0 / 18.5 / 12.5 / 18.5 | |
| #028 | A+ · 90.5 | OpenAI Sol |
076 · TWO PUBLIC EDGES
Bounded VISUAL PASS (V01, 120s); compares two public-camera records (1939–40 New York World's Fair Medicus collection) with strong spatial evidence.
|
120.0s |
22.5 / 19.0 / 18.5 / 12.5 / 18.0 | |
| #029 | A+ · 90.0 | Claude Sonnet |
WORDS · Polysemic Relay
PASS (qualified) · Repaired. Anchored by the 13–22s cigarette 'draw' where optical sound and semantic sense meet.
|
44.8s |
22.0 / 18.5 / 18.5 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #030 | A · 89.5 | Gemini Argon |
HOMONYM
PASS (Round 2). Semantic relay across spoken, physical, and tonal branches with intelligible archival speech.
|
38.4s |
21.5 / 18.5 / 18.5 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #031 | A · 89.5 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
ANYBODY, ANYWHERE
76s side-by-side split-screen pairing three situated recordings (1961 theatre chairs vs. 1944 typing chair); strong visual alignment and preserved sound spaces.
|
76.0s |
20.5 / 19.0 / 18.5 / 13.5 / 18.0 | |
| #032 | A · 89.5 | OpenAI Sol |
055 · TURN
PASS from fresh blind critic (V04). Eight passages from seven archival clips where the organizing word 'Turn' appears only at the end.
|
47.0s |
22.0 / 18.5 / 18.5 / 13.0 / 17.5 | |
| #033 | A · 89.5 | OpenAI Sol |
056 · IN DIFFERENT HANDS
Rebuilt V02 earned PASS from both visual critics; pairs two manual archival tasks with clear pre-action context.
|
35.0s |
21.5 / 19.0 / 18.5 / 12.5 / 18.0 | |
| #034 | A · 89.5 | OpenAI Sol |
070 · SAME DAY, DIFFERENT RECORDS
Bounded VISUAL PASS (V02, 90s); strong split comparison of Apollo 11 launch record vs. published transcript timing.
|
90.0s |
22.0 / 19.0 / 18.5 / 12.5 / 17.5 | |
| #035 | A · 89.5 | Claude Sonnet |
COLORS · Chromatic Chapters
PASS (qualified). Critic protected the mixed-colour hinge at 7.5s (yellow engine swung over deep teal sea) and the breakfast-table ending.
|
50.1s |
22.0 / 18.5 / 18.5 / 13.0 / 17.5 | |
| #036 | A · 89.0 | Gemini Argon |
ZERO MEMORY
PASS (Round 2). Fixed archival pool with three declared working-history resets and side-by-side recurrence comparison.
|
44.3s |
21.5 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #037 | A · 89.0 | OpenAI Sol |
075 · WITHIN REACH
Bounded VISUAL PASS (V01, 90s + 95s comparison); warm, situated home-movie comparison ('Within Reach') with zero synthetic filler.
|
90.0s |
22.0 / 19.0 / 18.0 / 12.5 / 17.5 | |
| #038 | A · 88.5 | Gemini Argon |
Words — Polysemic Relay
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Make viewers discover a word's changing senses through successive visible actions, then use the discovered ambiguity to change the sequence'
|
57.2s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #039 | A · 88.5 | Gemini Argon |
Symmetry — Imperfect Pairing
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Create a paired image that first satisfies an expectation of correspondence, then reveals a difference consequential enough to alter the rel
|
42.9s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #040 | A · 88.5 | Gemini Argon |
Moments — Microevent Attention
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Make a brief ordinary event feel complete enough to matter, then let its duration change the viewer's attention to the next event. The unit
|
48.2s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #041 | A · 88.5 | Gemini Argon |
Ball — Graphic Constancy Across Sources
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Hold one graphic anchor perceptually steady while its material, scale, and social purpose change across images. Release the crop on an irreg
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46.9s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #042 | A · 88.5 | Gemini Argon |
Matter — Material Affordance Chain
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Make one material behavior lead to another through observable transformation: pressure, folding, wetting, adhesion, or release. Treat resemb
|
45.0s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #043 | A · 88.5 | Gemini Argon |
Colors — Chromatic Chapters
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Use recurring color to carry attention across unrelated settings, then reveal that the same hue can organize very different actions. No arti
|
47.8s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #044 | A · 88.5 | Gemini Argon |
Parabolas (etc.) — Curves With Different Causes
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Use repeated curves to let viewers notice a geometric relation, then make differing causes and imperfect fits part of the film's discovery.
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45.4s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #045 | A · 88.5 | Gemini Argon |
Five — Parallel Lives, Unequal Details
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Let several people inhabit the same editorial structure while preserving differences in language, routine, and setting. Shared gestures crea
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54.3s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #046 | A · 88.5 | Gemini Argon |
Tango — Cyclic Room Accumulation
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Build a room where separate routine loops accumulate in the same architectural frame without acknowledging one another, then clear the room
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39.9s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #047 | A · 88.5 | Gemini Argon |
(nostalgia) — Temporal Offset Between Caption and Image
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Displace commentary one step ahead of the visible record so the viewer splits attention between anticipating the next image and remembering
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38.0s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #048 | A · 88.5 | Gemini Argon |
Out My Window — Spatial Facade & Window Matrix
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Treat an urban apartment facade as an inspectable spatial index: move from the exterior grid of windows into individual domestic interiors,
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38.2s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #049 | A · 88.5 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
ZERO MEMORY
Full 109.7s duration across 29 cuts with three explicit black memory-reset cards ('Working history cleared 1/2/3') protected by the critic.
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109.7s |
22.0 / 18.0 / 17.5 / 13.0 / 18.0 | |
| #050 | A · 88.0 | Gemini Argon |
MNEMONIL
PASS (Round 2). Biographical assembly with explicit provenance rupture disclosing that the archive clips belong to separate lives.
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39.8s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #051 | A · 88.0 | Gemini Argon |
Losers — Social Position Through Montage
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Show how a person's apparent social position changes when the surrounding responses become visible. Make the audience reconsider a label thr
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45.7s |
21.0 / 18.0 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #052 | A · 88.0 | Gemini Argon |
A Movie — Found-Footage Kinetic & Catastrophe Montage
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Assemble disparate archival fragments—countdown leader, looking through an optical sight, speeding vehicles, teetering contraptions, and aft
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41.9s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #053 | A · 88.0 | Gemini Argon |
Standard Gauge — Material Film Strip Inspection
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Place the physical film strip, projection mechanism, and emulsion history at the center of attention so the audience sees how every archival
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38.5s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #054 | A · 88.0 | Gemini Argon |
Life in a Day & Manakamana — Collective Horizon
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Move from dawn mountain light through shared meals, transit compartments held in real time, and mass labor to evening stillness, preserving
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40.2s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #055 | A · 88.0 | OpenAI Sol |
062 · IN USE
Qualified VISUAL PASS (V02); repaired red-continuity defect using American Look (1958) color chapters.
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60.0s |
21.5 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 12.5 / 17.5 | |
| #056 | A · 88.0 | Claude Sonnet |
MOMENTS · Micro-Event Attention
Inconclusive overall, but contains two of the finest shots in ALLWAYS: the toddler's backward stare (14–17s) and the haunting closing empty-room hold (44–48.5s).
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52.8s |
21.0 / 19.0 / 18.5 / 12.5 / 17.0 | |
| #057 | A · 87.5 | Gemini Argon |
Laughs! — Audible Contagion
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Build a changing acoustic chain from individually situated laughter, allowing rhythm to spread between shots while retaining the difference
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33.4s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #058 | A · 87.5 | Gemini Argon |
Breath — Invisible Force, Visible Consequence
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Make an invisible action legible through its effects on surfaces, objects, and other actions, then shape a film's duration around unequal ex
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36.5s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.5 | |
| #059 | A · 87.5 | OpenAI Sol |
061 · WHAT STAYS
Qualified PASS (V03) for visual contact and material response (macro paper wetting and state comparison).
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50.0s |
21.5 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 12.0 / 17.5 | |
| #060 | A · 87.5 | Claude Sonnet |
MATTER · Material Affordance Chain
Features the hypnotic 7.8s viscous pour (12.6–20.3s) and 9.4s lathe-chip hold; repaired Round-1 defect by explicitly labelling the grain-crack diagram.
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64.6s |
21.0 / 17.5 / 18.5 / 12.5 / 18.0 | |
| #061 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
EQUIVALENTS — Form, Action, and Affect
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). A collection of correspondences in form, action, and affect, with differences left available for attention rather than compressed into samen
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31.2s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #062 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
UNWITNESSED — Backgrounds & Unattended Processes
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). A collection about backgrounds, recorded absence, and unattended processes. The title does not certify that nobody previously viewed a sourc
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35.0s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #063 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
MEANWHILE — Beyond the Present Frame
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). An editorial view of what another place, person, or process is doing beyond the present frame. Parallel presentation need not mean simultane
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29.6s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #064 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
COMMONTHREAD — The Ordinary Tissue Between Plots
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Gather the ordinary tissue between plots—care, maintenance, waiting, and shared tasks—into sustained films whose connections retain particul
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34.4s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #065 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
A–Z — Cyclic Replacement Grammar
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Advance through a fixed sequence of three structural slots [A, B, C]: in each cycle, one motif retires while a new specimen enters the freed
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35.0s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #066 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Report — Event and Broadcast Divergence
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Set the scarce evidentiary record of a public event against the flood of television screens, radio relays, and commercial spectacle that sur
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35.4s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #067 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
The Alphabet — A Symbol System Acts on a Body
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Treat an elementary symbol system (letters, diagrams, and printed instructions) not as neutral pedagogy but as an uncanny pressure acting di
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30.4s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #068 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
A Walk Through H — Narrated Passage Between Maps
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Construct a journey entirely by moving across graphic maps, architectural drawings, and aerial terrain diagrams, so cartographic line-work b
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35.5s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #069 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
The Falls & A Walk Through H — Indexed Directory
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Organize disparate archival fragments under a strict alphanumeric catalog rubric (`CASE #01–#04`), pairing map drawings with field recording
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37.4s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #070 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Babies — Milestones Without a Universal Ladder
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Observe early childhood milestones—bedside examination, being lifted, standing at a doorway threshold, crouching among flowers, and walking
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35.2s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #071 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
High School — Institutional Routine From Inside
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Reveal how an institution shapes posture, speech, and time by linking unvarnished procedural encounters—corridor transit, classroom diagram,
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36.2s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #072 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Sacred — Distributed Witness, Local Ritual Logic
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Assemble locally recorded acts of devotion, threshold crossing, and ceremonial gathering so each practice remains intelligible through its o
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34.2s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #073 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Baraka — Contemplative Counterpoint Across Scales
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Build a wordless contemplative passage that sets geological and atmospheric stillness against dense human corridors, returning to a direct h
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35.5s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #074 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Samsara — Material Cycles and Changed Returns
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Follow a material cycle from soil and raw rock tunnel through factory floor and plate consumption to structural ruin and volcanic steam, ret
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36.5s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #075 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Life in a Day — Diurnal Window Comparison
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Align intimate daily acts—washing, looking into a mirror, speaking on the phone, and gathering at night—while keeping the unequal economic,
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32.3s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #076 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Human — Direct Testimony and Aerial Breathing Space
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Alternate direct, tightly framed human faces and frontal address against plain backgrounds with expansive aerial and coastal landscapes that
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35.8s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #077 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
First Position — Practice, Constraint, and Stage Exposure
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Earn the emotional weight of a stage performance by first documenting the physical discipline required to produce it: foot alignment, postur
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35.6s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #078 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City — Urban Cadence
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Shape a city passage from authentic archival street and transit views—beginning in an empty station before commuters arrive, accelerating th
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36.0s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #079 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Pickpocket — Object Transfer as Dramatic Grammar
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Build narrative tension entirely through close-ups of hands approaching, uncovering, transferring, lighting, and locking objects—letting man
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32.5s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #080 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Songs from the Second Floor — Tableau Pressure
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Hold deep, locked-off architectural frames—long window-lined interiors, men seated around an institutional table, figures waiting in corrido
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34.0s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #081 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch — Recurrence with Debt
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Repeat a structural refrain (the clerk at his ledger, the man on the telephone) across episodes of historical damage and institutional cerem
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31.1s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #082 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Le Quattro Volte — Fourfold Relay Beyond the Human
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Hand the center of attention across four realms of existence in a single landscape: (1) an aging human figure, (2) animal life in the field,
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36.3s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #083 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Wes Anderson / Robert Yeoman — Planimetric Geometry
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Use strict perpendicular framing—centered facades, twin doors, axial corridor tracking, and symmetrical two-shots—so geometric precision tim
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35.2s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #084 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Watchtower of Turkey — Momentum Across Discontinuity
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Pass kinetic momentum—forward rush, rotational spin, and upward lift—across sharply different places and decades while keeping the cut and s
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32.9s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #085 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Hands of the Archive — Analytical Video Essay
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Extract a corpus of close manual actions across unrelated decades to demonstrate a visual thesis: hands think through instruments, keys, soi
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37.2s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #086 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Chuck Jones — How Constraint Changes Performance
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Demonstrate how formal constraints sharpen performance across time: move from early broad full-body spectacle and slapstick contraptions to
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34.5s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #087 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Bear 71 — Situated Surveillance Countermap
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Reframe a monitored landscape from the perspective of the tracked creature: alternate telemetry maps and highway/rail corridors with direct
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34.8s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #088 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
BLA BLA — Gesture and Response Fable
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Structure a fable of communication around elementary interactive states—(1) awakening/looking, (2) puppet greeting, (3) two-figure exchange,
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33.6s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #089 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Welcome to Pine Point — Remembered Place Scrapbook
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Reconstruct a vanished community as a tactile scrapbook: move from the weathered welcome sign and handheld snapshots into home-movie parades
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34.5s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #090 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
One Millionth Tower — Reimagining Vertical Place
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Pair the documented wear of a high-rise/tenement environment with architectural re-drawings and community cultivation so residents' spatial
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34.8s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #091 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
A Short History of the Highrise — Vertical Essay
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Trace the multi-century history of vertical living across four chapters (Mud/Stone, Concrete Tenement, Glass Tower, and Domestic Window) whi
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29.1s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #092 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Motto — Participatory Narrative Image Slots
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Carry a continuous narrative voice through a brisk sequence of small, non-literal visual fragments—a storefront sign, a shadow on a wall, a
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32.4s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #093 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
The Unknown Photographer — Evidenced Archive & Space
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Place authentic historical photographs and camera artifacts inside an atmospheric navigation space—fog, ruins, and darkrooms—while keeping t
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35.5s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #094 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
We Feel Fine — Individual Expressions & Aggregates
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Alternate between macro-level particle fields representing an aggregate population and micro-level individual human expressions (laughter, b
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35.2s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #095 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
The Whale Hunt — Heartbeat Sampling Rhythm
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Let the sampling interval itself narrate the event: hold long, slow-pulse observations during waiting on the snowfield and sea horizon, then
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33.5s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #096 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Cowbird — Authored Stories in a Relational Commons
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Preserve quiet, self-contained personal stories—a writer at a desk in lamplight, hands weaving, a packed suitcase, a couple in a car—while l
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35.7s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #097 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Network Effect — Bounded Session in an Unfinishable Archive
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Expose the restlessness of infinite archival browsing by imposing a strict session timer: move through categorized human behaviors (`EATING`
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29.2s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #098 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
In Fragments — Material Ritual and Consequence
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Treat the archive not as weightless cloud data but as a material ritual of holding and releasing: move from an empty glass reliquary case an
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35.5s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #099 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
The Johnny Cash Project — Collective Frame Performance
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Sustain a single musical/postural cadence across radically different visual renderings—ink drawing, duplicate celluloid frames, bleached hig
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32.8s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #100 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
The Global Remake — Distributed Shot Score
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Treat a classic city-symphony shot list as an open score: pair the canonical apparatus/street instructions (Shot #01 Camera Rig, Shot #02 Wa
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30.6s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #101 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Sandy Storyline — Storm Event and Continuing Aftermath
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Refuse the news-cycle habit of abandoning a disaster once the storm passes: trace the arc from gathering storm clouds and flood-wrecked hous
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31.3s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #102 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
18 Days in Egypt — Participant Evidence Streams
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Assemble a civic event from multiple participant-held vantage points—building exits, street processions, night searchlights, and crowded hal
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31.5s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #103 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
Prison Valley — Investigative Road & Return Hub
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Alternately venture out along a valley highway to investigate an institutional industry—armored vans, padlocks, uniformed guards—and return
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34.8s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #104 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
LATENT — Navigable Archive Study
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). A proposed environment for following modeled relationships between source records. Navigation changes the encounter; coordinates belong to a
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31.2s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #105 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
THE VECTOR POET — Associative Editing Study
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Search proposes visual, sonic, or semantic neighbors; an editor tests whether their relation develops meaning and preserves context. Similar
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30.9s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #106 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
OPERATIVE CINEMA — Archival Bridges
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). Bridge documentary fragments with explicit transitional passages while keeping the recorded endpoints and the intermediate bridge distinguis
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34.5s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #107 | A · 87.0 | Gemini Argon |
ANYRECORD — Intake and Catalogue Study
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). A broad invitation to consider discarded film, audio, still images, and other recordings. Equal consideration does not make every record equ
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34.7s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #108 | A · 87.0 | OpenAI Sol |
069 · IT MUST BE CONNECTED
Bounded VISUAL PASS (V02, 70s) exposing manufactured entrance/shared-space relations across disparate buildings.
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70.0s |
21.0 / 18.5 / 18.5 / 12.0 / 17.0 | |
| #109 | A · 86.5 | Gemini Argon |
DOUBLETAKE — Comparative Edition Format
PASS (Round 2 Critic Tribunal). A second viewing, alternate cut, or source/derivative comparison changes the first encounter. Keep the source pool explicit so viewers can i
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28.8s |
20.0 / 18.0 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #110 | A · 86.5 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
HOMONYM
48s relay around 'place' across 12 cuts; critic praised 17.9–21.8s where spoken 'a place for everything' aligns with hands sorting a drawer.
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48.0s |
19.0 / 18.5 / 18.5 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #111 | A · 86.0 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
COLLECTIVE INVENTORIES
67s composite morning across 10 shots; features the praised cupboard-shutter reveal (12.6–15.4s) and distinct domestic actions.
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67.0s |
19.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.5 / 17.0 | |
| #112 | A · 86.0 | OpenAI Sol |
059 · EQUIVALENT RADIUS
VISUAL CONSTRUCTION: PASS (V02). Centered circular registration across domestic and industrial objects.
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38.0s |
21.0 / 18.0 / 18.0 / 12.0 / 17.0 | |
| #113 | A · 86.0 | Claude Sonnet |
FIVE · Parallel Lives
67.6s across 12 events with an alternate cut (065-five-alt.mp4); strong source foraging across five situated participants.
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67.6s |
20.5 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 12.5 / 16.5 | |
| #114 | A- · 85.5 | OpenAI Sol |
067 · WHAT ARRIVES NEXT
Bounded VISUAL PASS (V03, 90s) for precise-description/next-picture temporal offset construction after clearing V02's absent-cup defect.
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90.0s |
21.0 / 17.5 / 18.0 / 12.0 / 17.0 | |
| #115 | A- · 85.0 | Claude Sonnet |
SYMMETRY · Imperfect Pairing
53.9s paired-gesture study across 9 events; clean split compositions.
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53.9s |
20.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 12.0 / 16.5 | |
| #116 | A- · 84.0 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
ALMOST HUMAN
47.2s gesture sequence across 11 cuts; genuine archival micro-gestures, though shorter than the 75s brief.
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47.2s |
18.0 / 18.5 / 18.0 / 13.0 / 16.5 | |
| #117 | A- · 84.0 | OpenAI Sol |
064 · THE CURVE IS NOT THE CAUSE
Bounded VISUAL PASS (V04) comparative essay on archival flight/sport curves.
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60.0s |
20.5 / 18.0 / 17.5 / 11.5 / 16.5 | |
| #118 | A- · 83.5 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
CUT TO THE CHASE
43.9s pursuit across 10 cuts; strong opening momentum transfer from purple beach jogger to grey street crowd.
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43.9s |
18.0 / 18.0 / 18.0 / 13.0 / 16.5 | |
| #119 | A- · 83.0 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
NOBODY HOME
46.7s study across 5 shots; features the memorable opening of a boy carrying a chair to the window (0–12s), though person-removal is less explicit than Argon's 3-panel triptych.
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46.7s |
18.0 / 18.5 / 17.0 / 13.0 / 16.5 | |
| #120 | A- · 83.0 | Claude Sonnet |
LAUGHS · Audible Contagion
Contains the beloved 25.2–31.2s girls' shared laughter sequence, though acoustic contagion was quieter in earlier cuts.
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37.2s |
19.0 / 18.5 / 17.5 / 11.5 / 16.5 | |
| #121 | A- · 82.5 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
SPLIT SECOND
38.1s release study across 12 cuts; critic protected the bowler return and pin-fall payoff at 12–13s.
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38.1s |
17.5 / 18.0 / 17.5 / 13.0 / 16.5 | |
| #122 | B+ · 81.5 | Claude Sonnet |
LOSERS · Social Position
36.7s study built from a staged 1953 source; transparent disclosure of fictionalized staging in the case study.
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36.7s |
18.5 / 17.5 / 17.0 / 12.0 / 16.5 | |
| #123 | B+ · 80.5 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
KINETIC
58.6s labor montage across 14 cuts; hits target duration with mallet worker rhythm, though hard cuts felt abrupt to critic.
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58.6s |
18.5 / 17.5 / 16.5 / 12.5 / 15.5 | |
| #124 | B+ · 79.5 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
TERRA INCOGNITA
47.2s surface study across 6 shots; strong contrast between blown-out water aerial and black-bordered shoreline.
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47.2s |
17.5 / 17.5 / 16.5 / 12.5 / 15.5 | |
| #125 | B+ · 77.0 | Claude Sonnet |
BREATH · Invisible Force
Critic FAIL in Round 1 (needs simultaneous breath/mechanical comparison), though the 9s steam-jet hold (30–39s) is visually striking.
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57.4s |
17.0 / 18.0 / 16.5 / 11.5 / 14.0 | |
| #126 | B · 76.0 | OpenAI Sol |
074 · THE MISSING MINUTE
Bounded VISUAL PASS (V02, 110s) for directory index reasoning ('The Missing Minute'), but uses synthetic avatar cards instead of archival footage.
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110.0s |
19.5 / 13.0 / 16.5 / 11.5 / 15.5 | |
| #127 | B · 75.0 | OpenAI Sol |
066 · EIGHT PLACES
Bounded VISUAL PASS for substitution grammar, but built as a synthetic vector grid ('Eight Places') rather than foraged archival photography.
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74.6s |
19.0 / 13.0 / 16.5 / 11.0 / 15.5 | |
| #128 | B · 73.0 | OpenAI Sol |
068 · ONE FOLD, A ROOM
Bounded VISUAL PASS for metric scale logic, but uses a synthetic beige diagram ('One Fold, a Room') instead of photographic footage.
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74.0s |
18.5 / 12.5 / 16.0 / 11.0 / 15.0 | |
| #129 | B · 73.0 | OpenAI Sol |
072 · KEEP IT
Bounded VISUAL PASS for sign/action refusal logic, but rendered as a synthetic vector animation ('Keep It') rather than archival film.
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60.0s |
18.5 / 12.5 / 16.0 / 11.0 / 15.0 | |
| #130 | B · 73.0 | OpenAI Sol |
073 · THE ENTRANCE HAS MOVED
Bounded VISUAL PASS for cartographic passage, but rendered as an invented vector map ('The Entrance Has Moved') rather than archival footage.
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90.0s |
18.5 / 12.5 / 16.0 / 11.0 / 15.0 | |
| #131 | C+ · 67.0 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
PLANIMETRIC
35.7s single-shot hold; misses the 2-minute multi-tableau architectural requirement (1 shot vs. required 3+ fixed tableaux).
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35.7s |
12.0 / 16.5 / 13.5 / 11.0 / 14.0 | |
| #132 | C+ · 65.0 | OpenAI Sol |
058 · LAUGHS — SOURCE STUDIES
Marked 'unfinished' source study by Sol; honest self-audit refusing to claim a completed laugh-contagion proof.
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51.0s |
13.0 / 15.5 / 13.5 / 10.0 / 13.0 |