Vestige-The Warm_2025_Single-channel video
Duration: 17:46_Real-time environments produced in Unreal Engine 5
AI-assisted modelling (Tripo)
Sound collaboration: Damir Avdić

Vestige – The Warm is a moving-image work situated between experimental film, digital animation, and installation-based media art. Developed using real-time technologies, the project explores landscapes shaped by traces of destruction, transformation, and technological mediation.

The film unfolds through a continuous cinematic movement across digitally constructed environments composed of architectural fragments, damaged interiors, debris, and reconstructed spaces derived from contemporary zones of conflict and collapse. These environments do not function as direct documentary representation but as hybrid spaces where material traces, memory, and digital reconstruction intersect.

Rather than following a linear narrative, the work relies on duration, spatial movement, and immersion as its primary compositional principles. The camera drifts through unstable environments where fragments of architecture, objects, and geological formations appear suspended between disappearance and persistence. The title refers to this condition: vestiges as remnants of a disrupted world, and warmth as a metaphor for ecological and geopolitical overheating.

The project was produced in Unreal Engine 5, combining real-time rendering with AI-assisted transformations of hand-drawn elements developed through the platform Tripo. The sound layer of the work was developed in collaboration with musician Damir Avdić, whose minimal yet intense sonic presence reinforces the atmosphere of tension and suspended movement within the environments.

By translating traces of real-world destruction into synthetic environments, Vestige – The Warm positions the digital image as a space where documentation and fiction converge, questioning how contemporary technologies shape the perception of crisis, memory, and landscape.

Video, animation, concept: Milan Antić
Sound collaboration: Damir Avdić