There is something particularly enchanting about these videos inspired by the universe of Alice. Created with artificial intelligence, they build imaginary, dreamlike worlds that, despite their constant transformations, maintain a remarkable visual coherence. Each setting seems to follow the logic of a dream: anything can transform, yet nothing feels entirely arbitrary.
What interested me most was seeing how certain talismanic objects from Alice’s imagery detach themselves from their original functions and contexts to become the substance of new worlds. Cups, teapots, spoons, watches, bottles, cards and other familiar little objects cease to be mere props from the stories and become portals, landscapes, vehicles and architectures.
A teapot can become a train. A teacup, a boat. A bottle can lead into a forest. Everyday objects grow, change scale, shift their place in reality and begin to organize the very logic of the spaces around them. There is something deeply Carrollian about this: what we know remains recognizable while, at the same time, becoming something else.
Perhaps this is one of the most interesting possibilities of AI when applied to image-making. Not simply the production of the strange or spectacular, but the creation of poetic relationships between forms, symbols and visual memories, allowing a familiar repertoire to be continuously recombined and reimagined.
Alice has always inhabited a world where scales change, identities become unstable, objects acquire lives of their own, and ordinary rules cease to apply. There is therefore something quite natural in the encounter between her universe and the metamorphic possibilities of artificial intelligence.
In these little films, we are not simply returning to Wonderland. We are watching its objects escape from the pages and begin to dream new dreams.
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