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A music video that zooms through a lifetime in one continuous move
Paul Trillo answered Washed Out’s song with an unbroken camera move through four decades of a relationship — made from nearly 700 generated clips, of which about 56 survived the edit.
First-person account of the clip counts and the edit process
Official Washed Out upload on YouTube
What it does
An official Washed Out music video: a continuous, dream-like journey through a couple’s life, built by a director from hundreds of generated clips and finished with a conventional edit.
Who it helps
People who want to see AI video used with a director’s intent instead of as a spectacle.
How it was made
- Models
- Sora · creator-reported
- Tools
- Sora · Clip generation
- Trillo generated almost 700 clips to make the video and used about 55 or 56 of them — roughly a tenth of the material.
- He wrote and directed the piece around a single unbroken camera move through four decades of one relationship.
- The six-week edit was the real work: choosing, sequencing and fixing clips until the film read as one take.
What the person did
Paul Trillo conceived, wrote, generated, selected and edited the film; in his interview he is explicit that the meaning comes from the human direction around the tool.
What we know
Creator-reported: A first-person interview with clip counts and process details, an official label upload, and the maker’s portfolio; the video is credited to Paul Trillo for Washed Out.
Access checked — 2026-09-26 · Loaded the official YouTube upload (channel: Washed Out), the No Film School interview and the maker’s portfolio on 2026-09-26; the official Vimeo post title was confirmed through a fetch proxy because Vimeo is unreachable from this network.
Can you use it?
The video stays on its official upload and the label’s channels; we link only and host no frames or clips. The cover is an original Made With Models illustration, not a frame from the video.
About this project
Picked by Made With Models. Added 2026-09-26. Updated 2026-09-26.