Artificial Ruins (2026)
A group of amateur filmmakers begins an experimental project that gradually destroys their lives. As they shoot a fiction about a writer trapped with a monolith trying to create real beings through her writing, the boundary between what they're filming and what they're living disintegrates. The characters from the fiction begin to contaminate reality, until they become indistinguishable. Made in Barcelona on zero budget with the latest AI models applied to VFX, in the lineage of Dogma 95 and the Nouvelle Vague. Artificial Ruins is at once satire and dark comedy: a choral portrait of four artists destroying themselves, and a meditation on the question of our era: what is still human when the machine writes, generates, and edits faster than we can think?
Director: Sebastián C. Santisteban
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Lina Forero as Bettie |
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Gian Bonacchi as Victor Berlusconi / Limpiador |
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Michael Strelow as Matthew / Matt |
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Alina Razumenko as La Creaciòn / Salma |
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Lena Sakalla as Vanessa Elizabeth Wallis |
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Vlada Lacheev as TikToker |
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Leo Feygin as Dimitriy |
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Nathalie Meyer as Ama de Casa |
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Aldo D'Ibanos as Scrum Master / Yago |
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Carla Pueyo as Escritora |
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Helena Guillàn as Cirujana |
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Cristina Cretegny as Hemera |
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Berenice Zavala as Andrea |
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John Japhet Tubeo as Tonyo |
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Alfredo Sanchez as |
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Josué Jaramillo as |
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Enrique Martin as |
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Aleix as |
| Directing | Sebastián C. Santisteban | Director |
| Writing | Sebastián C. Santisteban | Writer |
| Sound | Roman Schoenbichler | Sound Designer |
| Editing | Sebastián C. Santisteban | Editor |
| Sound | Roman Schoenbichler | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Nahuel Beade | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Petar Angelov | Editor |
| Camera | Daniel De La Lastra | Director of Photography |
| Art | Stefania Reta Cano | Art Direction |
| Art | Diana Malù | Art Direction |
| Art | Iuliia Mostova | Art Direction |
| Art | Dagna Dudrak | Set Decoration |
| Directing | Mery Rose Franco | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Nacho Narvaez | First Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mario Cordoba | Makeup Department Head |
| Editing | Jorge Espinosa | Colorist |
| Production | Gian Bonacchi | Executive Producer |
| Production | Gian Bonacchi | Line Producer |
| Production | Consuelo Monsalve Robayo | Executive Producer |
| Production | Rocio Vecco | Executive Producer |
| Production | Rocio Vecco | Line Producer |
| Directing | Mery Rose Franco | Script Supervisor |
| Production | Dagna Dudrak | Production Assistant |
| Editing | Carla Sáiz Lara | Additional Editor |
| Art | Paula Carreras | Assistant Art Director |
| Visual Effects | Raquel Minguillón Fernández | VFX Artist |
| Directing | Marcos Oteiza Bemergui | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Felipe Gutiérrez | Third Assistant Director |
| Production | Miki de los Toyos | Line Producer |
| Sound | Juan F. Arévalo | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Julia Daswani | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Paulina Oñate | Sound Recordist |