The Rise of Filmmaker Sebastian Sommer

Sebastian Sommer has emerged as one of the most distinct voices in indie filmmaking, thanks to his debut feature Dragon—a surreal, dreamlike epic powered entirely by AI visuals. Drawing inspiration from The Lord of the Rings and the moody atmospheres of games like Elder Scrolls, Sommer crafted Dragon not as a traditional narrative, but as a memory, an abstract tapestry of knights, haunted realms, and ancient myth, filtered through a cinematic fog.

Told in vignette-style fragments, Dragon doesn’t chase plot, it lingers in mood. Frostbitten landscapes, floating castles, golden kings, and hooded skeleton warriors appear in scenes that feel like campfire stories half-remembered from another life. Sommer’s choice to use AI-generated imagery gives the film its strange, almost mythic texture, worlds feel unstable, faces don’t quite resolve, and nothing behaves by normal rules.

What sets Sommer apart is his complete embrace of the unreal. With Dragon, he treats AI less as a gimmick and more like a hallucinatory tool. The narration carries itself in a melancholic tone, giving the project a personal, handmade feeling. Even the score, ambient and atmospheric, feels like it’s bleeding through from another world.

While Dragon has its critics, some have called it “AI Slop”—Sommer brushes that off with confidence, saying, “Dragon is the memory of fantasy… like if you played Skyrim and then slept and had a dream about that world.” For viewers open to experimental storytelling and genre-bending visuals, the film offers a hauntingly original experience. It’s like watching a fantasy RPG after it’s been dissolved into myth and emotion.

Now available on Fawesome.tv, Dragon marks a bold first step for a filmmaker who isn’t interested in following trends, but in building strange, cinematic relics from the future. Whatever Sommer makes next, one thing’s clear: he’s not afraid to try something new and that’s exactly what makes him worth watching.