The City of Glass
An architectural essay film follows a glass district that preserves the memory of the factory town it replaced.
IXF-AIF-2026-U4SA88SWGA
The story
In a German river city, old factories were sealed behind reflective towers. A young architect maps the district at dawn and finds interviews, labor songs, and erased floor plans mirrored in the glass. The documentary becomes a precise argument about progress, memory, and the cost of beautiful surfaces.
- Original title
- Die Stadt aus Glas
- Country / region
- Germany
- Genres
- Documentary · Experimental
- Language
- German
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 72:00
- Director
- Anika Vogel
Creative process
Director, editor, rights reviewer, and native-language reviewer approve creative, legal, and cultural outputs.
Human-led concept, script, casting bible, and rights review; Runway Gen-4.5 for primary cinematic video plates; Google Veo 3.1 with Flow for physics, camera, and alternate motion passes; Runway Aleph 2.0 for shot-level revisions; Blender and Resolve finishing with human editorial approval, subtitle review, and C2PA export.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75%
- Creative method
- Live action with AI
- Format
- Feature film
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
- Frame rate
- 24 fps
- Delivery format
- 4K DCP; ProRes 4444 XQ master; H.265 review screener.
- Subtitles
- English · Korean · Thai · French · Spanish · German · Arabic