In surreal AI images, wild animals inhabit an empty Côte d’Azur villa, blurring presence and absence.
“Those gates … I’ve always wondered who lives behind them.” In irritatingly beautiful, black-and-white AI-generated images, Cap d’Ail shows wild animals inhabiting an empty luxury villa: lions on the terrace, a snake in the pool, giraffes in the hot tub. Director Laen Sanches transforms a real place on the Côte d’Azur into a quiet, surreal vision – a short visual study of presence, absence, and the strange within the familiar. For those who know: images don’t show what is – they show what we want to see.
