SHOWCASE
MARGARIDA BARRETO
ABOUT
Margarida Barreto is a Portuguese Creative Director, generative AI artist and educator exploring the intersection between technology, nature and human awareness.
With more than 20 years in design and visual communication, she works with artificial intelligence as a creative medium, combining cinematic storytelling, speculative imagery and social commentary.
Her work often addresses environmental impact, human behavior and the ethical tension between progressand responsibility. Through AI-generated film and visual experimentation, she builds symbolic narratives that question how technology shapes culture and perception.
She is the author of The Midjourney Expedition book, and regularly teaches professionals and creative teams how to integrate generative AI into visual workflows. She is also co-founder of CIA – Comunidade de Inteligência Artificial, a Portuguese initiative dedicated to AI literacy and creative experimentation.
Her work has been featured in international AI art communities, festivals and publications.
Endangered Species 2026 by Margarida Barreto
Eye of the Bull by Margarida Barreto
The Last Filter by Margarida Barreto
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaridabarreto/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/margarida.barreto28/
Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/margaridabarreto
Location Portugal
MY TECH STACK
1. Endangered Species 2026
Hybrid Hotline is a short satirical piece featuring bio-organic hybrid creatures speaking as if they were endangered species.
In a mock public service announcement, these hybrids ask others like them. Or anyone who feels threatened or vulnerable in the same way. To call a hotline and report their situation. The message circulates between thecreatures themselves and the viewer.
The tone is intentionally light. The film plays with the language of emergency campaigns and conservationmessages. Beneath the humour lies a reflection about fragility, belonging and the way society reacts to what it does not understand.
Through fictional species asking for help, the piece indirectly points to the many real species that are disappearing around us.
Tech Stack
Midjourney – image generation
Seedance – video generation and motion
Seedance– voice and narration
Suno – original soundtrack
CapCut – editing and compositing
2. Eye of the Bull
Eye of the Bull shifts the narrative perspective to the bull itself.
Instead of presenting the spectacle from the audience or the matador, the film places the viewer inside the perception of the animal. The arena becomes a fragmented visual field shaped by fear, instinct and confusion.The camera behaves as the bull’s eye, moving through flashes of movement, color and tension.
The work questions how narrative changes when the point of view changes. What is traditionally framed as ritual and spectacle becomes a subjective experience of disorientation and survival.
Through AI-generated imagery and cinematic motion, the piece explores empathy, perception and the power of perspective in storytelling.
Tech Stack
Midjourney /Seedream and Nano Banana – concept imagery and visual assets Seedance– cinematic animation
Kling AI – additional motion refinement ElevenLabs – narration
Suno – soundtrack
CapCut – editing and final composition
3. The Last Filter
The Last Filter imagines a future where technology no longer separates humans from nature but helps restore the connection between them.
In this speculative vision, artificial intelligence and advanced tools become a bridge that allows human life to coexist more harmoniously with natural ecosystems.
Organic forms, human bodies and technological structures merge into a new visual language where the boundary between biology and machine becomes fluid.
In this vision of the future, technology no longer distances us from nature. It becomes a tool that helps rebuilda fragile balance between human life and the living world.
Through cinematic AI-generated imagery, the piece explores the possibility that progress and ecological awareness can evolve together.
Tech Stack
Midjourney /Nano Banana – visual concepts and scenes MiniMax Hailuo / Kling – motion generation
Suno – soundtrack design
CapCut – editing and visual rhythm MiniMax – narrative
“I use Artificial Intelligence, not to replace my vision and criteria, but to question human impact.”
— Margarida Barreto


