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Added Oct 17, 2026

Pawn Paths

Réka Harsányi's three-minute black-and-white AI short, inspired by the Bauhaus and chess, with chess-piece performers acting out family and power.

Réka Harsányi

3:00AI NativeFantasy

About the film

Pawn Paths is an experimental short by Hungarian creator Réka Harsányi, finished in 2025 and running about three minutes, hosted on caisroom, CloudWalk's curated platform for AI cinema. It's a black-and-white film inspired by Bauhaus aesthetics and the game of chess. Figures dressed as chess pieces appear in surreal, stage-like scenes that explore family ties, power and inner struggle; each piece's move across the board mirrors the choices and conflicts that shape a person's sense of self. Music and performers looking straight into the camera blur the line between real life and staged performance. The screening page lists TOPAZ, Kling AI and SUNO AI, and tags it as experimental and fantasy.

Who it's for:viewers who like black-and-white, design-driven experimental shorts, and anyone interested in the Bauhaus or chess.

Before you watch: it plays publicly on caisroom; we haven't played it ourselves. About three minutes; language and subtitles aren't listed. No reuse rights are granted.

Based on the caisroom screening page. Watch the film itself for the full picture.

How AI was used

The caisroom page lists TOPAZ, Kling AI and SUNO AI. It doesn't say which tool was used for which step.

Sources checked; not a review or endorsement of the film.

Based on the project's public documentation. Not tested by AI Inspiration World.