Film history, video essays and cinematic AI shorts

Mark Wachholz

Particle Panic

A German AI filmmaker who releases short films, trailers and video essays under the name Particle Panic.

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1 film
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Festival awards
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Years
2025
Last active
2 Nov 2026
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Mark Wachholz publishes as Particle Panic; the channel links his own LinkedIn, Facebook and X profiles. Its catalogue runs from AI short films and concept trailers to video essays, with a recurring interest in cinema itself. The Cinema That Never Was imagines the films history never produced and won AI Film Festival Japan’s 2025 Best AI Documentary Award.

He is unusually specific about method: the release of that film names each generation, music and voice tool and discloses creator-programme support. Those are the maker’s statements about one film, not a general account of his practice; team sizes and budgets remain unknown.

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