LET ME SHOW YOU THE BEAUTY OF FALLING FROM GRACE

Synopsis

A journey through the artist's creative process from the mysterious genesis of inspiration to its very highs and its very lows, following the uplift of a demiurgic empowerment till its helpless demise.

Let Me Show You the Beauty of Falling from Grace is a short film made by director JIMENA AGUILAR in collaboration with PABLO POLLEDRI, responsible for the AI animation, and AMINE BOUCEKKINE, who composed the music and the poetry that opens the movie and inspires the concept. Through an experimental, surrealist and abstract journey, the movie depicts the process of creation of art, from the first brushstrokes to the interpretation or experience from the connoisseur or the average audience.

It literally begins with several shots of a brush in a canvas, all synchronized with the fast beats of electronic music. There are no colors yet, but instead of regular black & white, there are ochre metallic tones. Soon, it is possible to distinguish some sketches of trees, landscapes, human hands and brains. These shapes are not static, they move or transmute into something else, provoking connections on the viewer’s mind. A sequence of landscapes show their transformation through time.

Directed by

Jimena Aguilar

Amine Boucekkine, Jimena Aguilar

Written & Produced by

Jimena Aguilar

When the paintings gain colors (first in pastel tones and afterwards in vivid hues), the sequences become more surrealistic. While the drawings change, there is a zoom movement towards the paintings, which evokes the sensation of the iconic hallucinogenic sequence in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Now the music is not so beat-oriented as it was at the beginning of the movie. That melodic sequence has now become a noisy electronic effect, creating a luring but overwhelming force that pushes the viewer into this maelstrom that represents the power of creation. The zooming also travels backwards, a zoom out that can possibly mean the effect the piece of art provokes in its audience. Besides the purely abstract drawings, there are also recognizable forms, like hands, brains and trees, that lead to the surrealistic bias of the movie, mostly during the zooming out. Finally, the last part has no music and no zooming. An undistinguished word is repeated while the images seem to find settlement.

Although Let Me Show You the Beauty of Falling grom Grace is totally experimental, it has a distinguished structure. The first section has brushes that evoke the beginning of the creation process. Then comes the work of painting, marked by the zooming in as a symbol of the work being delivered to the canvas. And finally, the zooming out as the experience of others before the piece of art.

In Amine Boucekkine’s statement, or in the film credits, the paintings used in the movie are not authored in the traditional sense. So, we must take for granted that AI created them and not just animated them. That being true, the movie is an outstanding proof of what one can achieve through the use of Artificial Intelligence. It is so amazing that, from thoughts, given the right instructions, technology can materialize an artist’s creation. And what is even more interesting, in the case of Let Me Show You the Beauty of Falling grom Grace, is that the movie itself is a homage to the process of the artist’s creation. In this sense, Jimena Aguilar, Pablo Polledri and Amine Boucekkine made a unique metalanguage movie, using AI to show the process of human creation, and that is such a contradictory proposition. Definitely provocative and bold.

2025, France, 8 min

Amine Boucekkine

Song & Poetry by

Animation / Visual Generation by

Pablo Polledri

Eduardo Kaneco

Film critic, the founder of Leitura Filmica