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JADE ON MARS
AI MUSICAL SERIES
2024-2025

Jade on Mars is a sci-fi musical web series built around my digital alter ego, Jade X: a cybernetic singer who leaves Earth and crosses a speculative Martian world in search of something that is at once intimate, symbolic, and planetary in scale.
 

Set within red deserts, unstable architectures, and dreamlike interiors, the series unfolds as a surreal passage through music, performance, and transformation. As Jade X moves across Mars, she encounters synthetic beings, shifting environments, and situations suspended between melancholy and wonder, turning the planet into a stage for estrangement, desire, and reinvention.
 

More than a narrative project, Jade on Mars is an audiovisual research space where song, moving image, and digital imagination converge. Through Jade X, I explore the possibility of constructing a synthetic presence that is not merely virtual but emotionally charged and symbolically dense: a figure suspended between avatar, performer, muse, and apparition.
 

AI, in this project, is not used as a spectacle or novelty but as a medium for shaping a new kind of musical cinema. What interests me is the unstable threshold where humans and machines, fiction and intimacy, simulation, and emotional truth begin to overlap without ever fully resolving with one another.


This series was also born in a more artisanal phase of my research, before the arrival of today’s most advanced AI video tools. To achieve consistency for Jade X, I developed handcrafted hybrid workflows combining rotoscoping, Photoshop intervention, image editing, and 3D construction.

 

These self-built methods allowed me to stage the character with a degree of visual continuity that was still difficult to obtain at the time, anticipating the cinematic coherence that newer tools have made more accessible today.

Shows
The New Ras Al Khaimah Biennale, UAE - 2026

Episodes

The Arrival
03:28
Francesca Fini
The Arrival
The first chapter of Jade on Mars opens with Jade X’s dreamlike arrival on the red planet. She does not land so much as drift into it, as if Mars were less a destination than a state of mind. Suspended between science fiction and musical reverie, the video introduces Jade as a synthetic presence moving through an unfamiliar world of silence, vast landscapes, and fragile wonder. It is the beginning of an inner and planetary journey, where exile, transformation, and desire start to take form through image, sound, and performance.
Posh on Mars
06:35
Francesca Fini
Posh on Mars
In the second episode, Jade enters the most coveted fashion boutique on Mars in search of the outfit she will wear for her concert in Solara, the luminous capital of Arabia Terra. Inside this seductive and unstable space, she meets two figures who will shape the course of her journey: Astra, a radiant Plutonian obsessed with fashion, and Madame Xelia, the elegant and elusive director of the boutique. Among crystalline heels, strange cocktails, and Martian couture, the episode begins to weave the first threads of a destiny that is already larger, stranger, and more dangerous than it seems.
Shifting Sands
03:44
Francesca Fini
Shifting Sands
In the third episode, Shifting Sands, Jade drifts into a dreamlike desert where memory becomes a trap. As one of the last survivors of Earth’s nuclear collapse, she is drawn back toward the lost world she still carries within her. But Mars does not offer refuge. It distorts, seduces, and gives form to what should have remained buried. Shadows thicken into black creatures at the edge of perception, and the landscape begins to mirror her inner fracture. What follows is less an escape than a confrontation with the fears she can no longer outrun.
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