Le Petit Chemin

We all carry in our hearts the path we once took to school, every corner, every shortcut, every stretch that felt endless when we were small. Returning to it as adults, we find it shrunken, swallowed up by new buildings and wider roads, progress laying its heavy hand over memory.

We set out to see if AI could recreate the ordinary setup of small-town India: streets, uniforms, gestures that feel instantly familiar to Indian viewers. With AI it is easy to generate the fantastic, the surreal, or the futuristic. The harder test is the mundane: the everyday details that make something believable. This project became an exercise in consistency across characters, clothing, and location, pushing AI to hold the thread of reality from frame to frame.