THE CURATED LOG XVI
By MITO Universe - @mito.universe
Welcome back to MITO Universe.
If algorithms dream, this week they’re dreaming in waves.
Silver suits melting into chrome floors. Glitched spirits blinking through folklore. A baby-faced model whispering on a transatlantic deck.
Reality is looking sideways — and artists are embracing the blur.
From the eerie beauty of Yolkluck’s digital yōkai to Alba de la Fuente’s architectural ghostscapes, the frontier isn’t speed. It’s strangeness.
And maybe that’s the real promise of generative tools: Not to simulate the world we know —but to render the one we’ve been afraid to imagine.
SELECTED CREATORS
Alba de la Fuente / @albadlfuente_
Madrid-based architect turned visual poet, Alba de la Fuente explores the emotional afterimage of space — what lingers once the structure fades. Her work lives between the precision of architecture and the ambiguity of digital memory, building fictional interiors where geometry dissolves into reverie.
Through 3D composition and visual storytelling, she creates spatial images that feel both tactile and untouchable. In projects like The Pillars, structure becomes ritual; in collaborations with creators like Andrés Reisinger, she blurs the boundary between the built and the imagined.
Her aesthetic is marked by tension: flatness and depth, surface and skin, intimacy and distance. Alba doesn’t just render spaces — she renders atmospheres. Architecture as quiet cinema.
Stevie / @stevie.ai
Based in Berlin, Stevie —Creative Directress & AI Explorer— is reshaping the boundaries of motion through code, stillness and subtlety. Under the alias stevie.ai, she’s crafting a visual practice where AI-generated video becomes cinematic gesture: minimal, poised, and emotionally precise.
Her work feels like a whisper in motion: soft black-and-white frames, subtle breathing textures, portraits that linger. Drawing inspiration from analogue fashion editorials and photographic storytelling, Stevie’s pieces resist noise — they invite presence.
For her, AI is less about speed than about responsibility. “It’s like a fast-growing baby,” she says. “It is our responsibility what we teach it about us humans.” That care and consciousness echo through every frame — quiet, intentional, and deeply human.
WHAT’S NEW
Sora 2 lets you star in your own AI‑generated films
OpenAI just dropped a new version of Sora that allows users to insert themselves — face, voice, and movement — into any generated video. Think custom cameos, virtual doubles, and a new layer of storytelling where the line between viewer and protagonist blurs.
Google launches Global AI Film Award
Google is officially entering the AI film game. Their newly announced prize will reward short films created with AI tools like Gemini, Imagen, and Runway. Submissions are open now — and close November 20. One more sign that generative storytelling is no longer fringe — it’s festival-ready.
Sora hits #1 on the App Store
Just days after the launch of its mobile version, OpenAI’s Sora has climbed to the top spot on the iOS App Store. While still in limited rollout, its ranking signals massive public appetite for AI video — and shows that generative storytelling is moving from the fringe to people’s phones.
KEY VISUAL
From rails to waves — Golf le Fleur sets sail.
Created by Arantxa Barcia as part of her ongoing visual storytelling practice at MITO Films (@mitofilms), Golf le Fleur Maritime is the second chapter in a fictional beauty campaign that began with Golf le Fleur Express (March 2025).
This new piece reimagines Tyler’s world aboard a pastel-toned transatlantic ship, blending editorial elegance with playful surrealism. Real products from the Golf le Fleur beauty line — fragrance, nail polish, and even a baby capsule — become narrative objects inside a generative mise-en-scène.
Crafted with tools like Freepik, Kling, Runway, Higgsfield, DeepMind and WAN 2.1, the video shows how far one can push narrative design with AI — when driven not by automation, but by taste, rhythm and storytelling instinct.
Because in a world of fast tools, continuity becomes a form of authorship. And fiction, a way to measure creative progress.
That’s all for now — we’ll be back in your inbox next week.