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The capacity of generative neural networks to produce images that touch the dreamlike, the unconscious, and the impossible opens up a new expressive territory. It is in this space — between the artificial and the oneiric — that the work of Marcus Couto unfolds: a visual artist who uses artificial intelligence as a poetic and cinematic instrument.His creations are structured as fragments: short films lasting only seconds, isolated scenes that do not follow a linear narrative logic, but instead evoke atmospheres. They are visions. Supernatural creatures, alien deserts, spiritual ruins, and worlds suspended in time emerge in brief videos, almost like memory lapses or interrupted dreams.The social media platforms where these videos circulate are not merely channels of distribution. They are part of the language. TikTok, Instagram, Threads — these digital spaces become sites of experimentation, where aesthetics, virality, and ephemerality intertwine.The influence of artists like David Lynch is perceptible, but Couto’s work does not aim for direct citation — rather, he shares the desire to explore what escapes reason. His videos do not explain: they disturb, suggest, unsettle. They are sustained by strangeness, silence, and ambiguity.By combining art, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms, Marcus Couto explores a new visual grammar — a fragmentary, fluid, haunted grammar. A cinema of visions, born from the machine, yet speaking directly to the unconscious.