The Men Who Collected the Dead | PIZZIGAMORTI (1630)

Venice, 1630. The Black Death has turned the city's canals into a passageway for the dead. Every night, Matteo and his young companion Nico work as pizzigamorti — men tasked with collecting the bodies of plague victims from their homes and carrying them through the deserted canals of Venice. Behind every closed door lies another tragedy. For Matteo, death has become routine. But beneath his hardened exterior is a husband and father who desperately hopes to return home to the people he loves. 1630 – PIZZIGAMORTI is a 12-minute historical drama set during the plague epidemic in 17th-century Venice, Italy. A cinematic short film about loss, duty, human connection, and the fragile boundary between life and death. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 ABOUT THE PRODUCTION An independent historical short film created using generative AI and traditional filmmaking techniques. Every scene was individually developed with a focus on cinematic storytelling, historical atmosphere, character consistency, and emotional realism. AI PRODUCTION Higgsfield – AI Film Production Nano Banana PRO – Image Generation Seedream 5.0 Pro – Image Generation Seedance 2.5 (480p) – Video Generation ChatGPT SOL 6.1 – Prompt Design POST-PRODUCTION Final Cut Pro – Editing Topaz Video AI – Upscaling FilmConvert Nitrate – Film Emulation & Color Finishing Triune Digital LUTs – Color Grading Logic Pro 12 – Sound Design, Audio Post-Production & Mastering HIGGSFIELD PROJECT https://higgsfield.ai/@badbee-picture... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎵 MUSIC Music licensed through Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com MUSIC CREDITS Are You Alone? – Victor Lundberg Figure – Benjamin Monday For Every Child – Miles Avida Hunger, Thirst – Johannes Bornlöf Monarch – Laura Platt Path of Fortitude – Dian Shuai Suddenly the Leaves Fall – Ruiqi Zhao The Call of the Wild – Victor Lundberg The Cold – Alec Slayne The Heart – David Celeste ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #HistoricalShortFilm #Venice1630 #Plague #AIFilm #Pizzigamorti #Higgsfield #AICinema