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A birth story that moves from the operating room into the cosmos
Eliza McNitt turns the emergency story of her own birth into an eight-minute hybrid film — live action, family archive and generative imagery that shows scales a camera cannot reach. Premiered at Tribeca 2025.
McNitt on the physical references, the LoRA and the edit
Official Primordial Soup upload; plays here through YouTube’s official player
What it is
Watch a film where generative imagery has a precise dramatic job: moving through a mother’s body and into a cosmic womb to show what a camera cannot reach.
Who it is for
People who want to see AI video in service of a personal story, not spectacle.
How it was made
- Models
- Custom LoRA models · trained on authorised family photographs — creator-reportedVideo-to-video generation · creator-reported; not itemised
- Tools
- Live-action photography · Performances and real materialVideo-to-video transformation · Turning practical references into generative imagery
- McNitt built the film around a ten-week production with about 200 collaborators, including 20 dedicated artists.
- Physical references came first — practical umbrella-and-wire rigs were shot and then transformed; a LoRA trained on authorised family photographs kept the family’s look consistent.
- Hundreds of generations were made per usable image, then cut with live-action photography, VFX and sound — including a real heartbeat and the baby’s voice.
What the person did
McNitt wrote and directed the piece; Audrey Corsa’s physical performance and the family archive keep the spectacle tied to lived material. The production is a Google DeepMind and Primordial Soup collaboration, not a solo workflow.
What we know
Creator-reported: The official upload, a Future of StoryTelling case study and a detailed craft interview; the ten-week production involved about 200 contributors.
Access checked — 2026-09-28 · Opened the official YouTube upload, the Future of StoryTelling case study and the shots interview on 2026-09-28; playback verified in-frame.
Can you use it?
The film stays on its official upload and plays here through YouTube’s official player when a visitor loads it; we host no copy. The cover is an original Made With Models illustration, not a frame from the film.
About this project
Picked by Made With Models. Added 2026-09-28. Updated 2026-09-28.