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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 is
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 is for
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.
- Trillo spent about six weeks on the project, and much of it went into the edit: 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 and plays here through YouTube’s official player when a visitor loads it; we 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.