Journaling is an ongoing personal project where each day becomes a short video diary entry. Instead of traditional writing, the diary takes the form of surreal self-portraits, sculptural busts that resemble fragments of the self. These portraits become the narrator of the day. Each entry begins as a written reflection: a small observation, a memory, a thought about the day. That text becomes the voice of the portrait.

Using generative tools, the process unfolds across several stages:

First, I design the portrait using Midjourney, exploring surreal interpretations of the human head and bust as containers of thought, memory, and mood. The selected portrait is then animated with HeyGen, where the bust recites the diary entry, transforming a static image into a speaking presence. The narration itself is also generated through AI voice synthesis, creating a strange but intimate effect: the portrait becomes both author and narrator of the daily reflection.

Finally, the pieces are assembled in Adobe Premiere, where the visual rhythm, sound, and pacing shape the final diary entry. The result is a hybrid between personal journaling, experimental portraiture, and AI-assisted filmmaking, a daily practice that explores how technology can mediate memory, identity, and storytelling.

Each entry is small. But over time, they accumulate into a living archive of thoughts, images, and days.

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LUX is an ongoing generative film cycle inspired by the music, symbolism, and emotional architecture of Rosalía’s album LUX. Created using a hybrid workflow of AI image generation, AI video synthesis, and traditional film editing, each piece explores the tension between the sacred and the synthetic, the corporeal and the algorithmic, devotion and distortion. Rather than illustration or adaptation, LUX functions as a cinematic response, a visual meditation on sound, rhythm, memory, and ritual translated through machine vision.

Conceptual Approach

These films are not narratives in the traditional sense. They operate as visual poems: fragments of gesture, texture, and movement that echo the emotional states of the music. Flamenco, religious iconography, industrial minimalism, and surrealist collage coexist inside environments that feel simultaneously ancient and computational. AI is treated not as a shortcut, but as a performer, a collaborator capable of hallucination, failure, and beauty.

Technical Process

Each film is built using a custom pipeline that blends:

• Weavy.ai for orchestration, sequencing, and managing the generative workflow.

• Midjourney for conceptual imagery and visual world-building.

• Kling for AI-driven motion, transformation, and temporal distortion.

• Adobe Premiere for editorial rhythm, pacing, and final cinematic assembly.

This process allows for precise control over mood and symbolism while preserving the unpredictability that makes generative systems expressive.

Status

LUX is an ongoing series. New films will continue to expand this universe, responding to additional tracks and evolving alongside advances in generative tools.

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Text prompts & look exploration

Characters development: “bruja mayor”, zombie & “bruja joven”

Spaces: the house, the forest and the beach

The movie poster, and 5 options

The movie title, and credits

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