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About Nik Klabunde
Nik Klabunde is an AI filmmaker whose western short Iron & Dust began life as an experiment — and outgrew the experiment.
In his own description, the film was made while testing Nano Banana Pro when the pro version first came out: the images are all exclusively Nano Banana Pro, while the video generations were done in Hailuo 2.1, Kling 2.5 Turbo and a little Wan 2.5. He is disarmingly honest about the result — noting that AI still struggles with action sequences, physics and consistency, joking “don’t look at the train’s moving direction”, and concluding that “it is amazing to see how far we have come”.
The film itself is a five-minute dialogue duel in a moving train car between a bounty hunter and a territorial governor — written, unusually for a tool test, like a piece of theatre.
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Featured Work
A lone rider boards a moving train to collect a bounty on the territorial governor. The governor talks — about pears, about rot, about money — and offers $3,000 to buy out a contract worth $50. The rider’s answer is the film.
On Kineograph: Final Score 6.9/10 — AI Slop Meter: Some slop 5.5/10
