THE DECEMBER 14 Music Video Festival
Hollywood, CA – The AI International Music Video Festival proudly announces the cutting-edge winners of its
December 14 program at the classic Los Feliz Theatre in Hollywood.
December 14 SELECTED MUSIC VIDEOS WINNERS
“A Space Opera: Send Me A Letter” - Brogan Wassell - United States - 2025 - 5 min - JURY AWARDS: Best Art Direction
What does this lovesick galactic goddess have to say?
This music video builds a massive visual world - cosmic beings, shiny and rusted armor, creation myths, love and hate, all wrapped in a grand operatic style. As a feeling piece, the sound and visuals are often beautiful, atmospheric, and emotionally charged. It delivers a strong sense of longing, scale, and drama.
“HEARTBREAKER” - Jagger Waters - United States - 2025 - 3 min - World Festival Premiere - JURY AWARDS: Best Cinematography
What does it take to break free and live truthfully?
This is the rare entry that actually feels like a music video... It’s stylish, confident, and knows exactly what it wants to be. The direction has attitude, the camera work is bold without being chaotic, and the editing holds a rhythm that matches the track perfectly. You can feel a human behind the lens, someone with taste, timing, and a point of view.
The song itself? Total earworm. Clever structure, memorable hook, and it supports the visuals instead of competing with them. Hyland Church’s performance is grounded and magnetic, and the acting around him works because everyone stays inside the same tone.
“Home Sweet Home” - Erik Gen - United States - 2025 - 4 min - World Festival Premiere - JURY AWARDS: Best Music Video, Best AI Visuals - AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS: Best Music Video
What do we think of when we think of home?
“Home Sweet Home” is a standout this season - stylish, unhinged, satirical, and genuinely hilarious in all the right ways. It takes a familiar, painfully relatable theme - the adult who returns to their mother’s house - and turns it into a horror-comedy fever dream that feels both outrageous and deeply true.
The tone is pitch-perfect: a blend of horror aesthetics, surreal humor, and social commentary that bursts out of the traditional music-video box and invades your imagination with total confidence. It’s playful, self-aware, and wildly creative.
“Bikini” - Itai Palti - Israel - 2025 - 5 min - JURY AWARDS: Best Storytelling Music Video
What happens to a bikini in the wild?
This music video is hysterical in the best, most intelligent way. It takes a lost bikini, washes it onto a deserted island, and somehow turns that tiny piece of fabric into a full-blown satire of human culture - all without ever breaking its playful rhythm.
The pacing is crisp, the sound is rhythmic and delightful, and the story unfolds with a kind of effortless charm. Animals discovering fashion, mimicking beauty standards, and spiraling from innocence into spectacle - it’s ridiculous, elegant, and unexpectedly sharp.
Just pure joy, perfectly executed.
“A Heart Of Stone” - Axel Schilling - Germany - 2025 - 3 min
What's it like to have a heart of stone?
This is one of those music videos that feels both old-school in concept and refreshingly new in execution. But what makes the piece stand out is how clean, modern, and visually cohesive it is. Black and white, uncluttered, and striking.
The emotional tone is understated but effective. It doesn’t force meaning onto the viewer... it suggests it, gently. That’s rare in AI-driven work, where creators often drown subtlety under layers of spectacle. Here, the simplicity becomes the strength. The metaphor breathes.
The use of AI tools is actually meaningful for once - not just decorative chaos. The imagery leans into the surreal and symbolic in a way that feels intentional: slightly strange, slightly funny, strangely touching. It makes you smile, not because you have a heart of stone, but because something quiet is being mirrored back to you.
“SERENELY F**KED” - Michael Cole - United States - 2025 - 3 min - World Festival Premiere - JURY AWARDS: Best AI Music, Best Director
How are we serenely f**ked?
This music video nails its tone: satirical, absurd, and self-aware in a way that feels both hysterically funny and aesthetically intentional. The pastel-pop palette is delicious, the rhythm lands, and the whole thing radiates that “I’m smiling through the chaos” energy we all secretly relate to.
The sound works (it actually moves the body) and the editing keeps the pace bouncing without losing its charm. It feels cohesive, original, and visually confident.
“Burn Out | Lucy” - Addy Feuerstein - Israel - 2025 - 5 min - JURY AWARDS: Best Animation
Music video clip for the French band “Lucy Musique”, featuring an origami character that is having a real, real bad day at work.
This animation stands out immediately for its sophistication. The visual style is cool, confident, and meticulously crafted - not just another AI experiment, but a genuinely artistic interpretation of burnout. The attention to detail is delightful, from the environment design to small symbolic moments like the burned tomato-cheese sandwich that quietly says everything about mental overload.