Film concept
Fractal Being: The Land of All Lives is an experimental fusion film by Hanna Zhu. It begins with a simple proposition: we are not separate particles moving through an indifferent universe, but repeating expressions of a larger living pattern.
Generative imagery expands human movement into landscapes, forms and scales that cannot be performed by a physical body alone. The body remains the emotional anchor while AI extends its visual field.
Creative approach
The work combines movement-led composition, generative visual exploration and cinematic editing. Outputs are selected for their relationship to the project’s central idea rather than novelty alone: continuity between individual gesture and cosmic structure.
Embodiment and scale
The film moves between intimate bodily presence and vast imagined systems. This shift in scale is central to Hanna’s broader practice, which asks how AI can make felt experience visible without erasing the person from whom that experience originates.