The use of artificial intelligence in films is exploiting. And a young film festival, now in its first year, shows what this technology can do on the current screen.
The Annual Ai Film Festival, organized by Runway, a AI -generated video company, started New York on Thursday night with ten short films from around the world debuting on the big screen.
“Three years ago, this was such a crazy idea,” the director general of the court, Cristóbal Valenzuela, told the crowd. “Today, millions of people make thousands of videos with tools we only dream of.”
The film festival itself has grown significantly since its debut in 2023. Valenzuela said that about 300 people presented films when it first began, compared to about 6,000 communications received this year.
The one and a half hour formation extended to various creative styles and ambitious themes, with the “Total Pixel Space” by Jacob Alder, who brought home the festival’s highest prize. The 9 -minute movie and 28 seconds questions how many possible images, or not, they exist in digital space and uses math to calculate a colossal number. An impressive series of images, ranging from family life to those who bend the reality, allows viewers a vision of what is there.
In the meantime, Andrew Salter’s “Jailbird”, which stuck second place, tells the journey of a chicken, from the perspective of the bird, to a human prison in the United Kingdom to participate in a joint rehabilitation program. And “One”, a futuristic story of Ricardo Villavicencio and Edward Saatchi on interplanetaris trips, followed in third place.
The ten films shown were selected finalists from thousands sent to the Runway Film Festival this year. The underpants will also be displayed in the screenings held in Los Angeles and Paris next week.
How the AI is used and executed is a factor that the judges evaluate when determining the festival winners. But not all introduced movies were made completely using and. Although the presentation criteria require that each movie includes the use of video generated by AI, there is no set threshold, that is, some films can take on a more “mixed support” approach, such as combining live actors or real life images and sounds with elements generated by AI.
“We are trying to encourage people to explore and experiment,” Valenzuela said in an interview before Thursday’s screening.
It is not easy to create a movie consistent with and generative. You can take a long list of addresses and numerous detailed directions to even get a short scene to make sense and look consistent.
However, the extent of what this type of technology can do has grown significantly from the first Runway Ai Film Festival in 2023, and Valenzuela says this is reflected in current communications. Although there are still limits, the video generated by AI is becoming more and more like life and realistic.
Runway promotes the use of their own AI tools for films that are introduced to their festival, but creators also allow to resort to other resources and tools, as they set up films and the entire industry, the tools they use and to create videos that cover the text, image and/or audio instructions have improved quickly in recent years, while they were available.
“The way (this technology) has lived in film culture and the media and pop culture, it has really accelerated,” said Joshua Glick, an associate professor of film and electronic arts at the Bard College.
He adds that the Runway Fest film, which is among a handful of presentations aimed at highlighting the creative abilities of AI, comes as companies in this space seek “legitimacy and recognition” of the tools they create, with the aim of cementing collaborations in Hollywood as a result.
The presence of Ai in Hollywood is already wide and perhaps more expansive than many filmmakers realize. Beyond the applications of “ title title ” (and sometimes controversial) that large budget films have done to “ uprooting ” actors or create attractive stunts, Glagick notes, this technology is often incorporated into a series of post -production editing, digital retouching, and, additional, can be included in the images of the order.
Industry executives repeatedly point out how IA can improve efficiency in the films process, allowing creatives to perform a task that once took hours, for example, in minutes and fostering later innovation.
However, the rapid growth and adoption of AI have also increased concerns about expanding technology, especially their implications for workers.
The international alliance of employees of the Theatrical Space, which represents the entertainment workers between scene in the United States and Canada, has “ hugged new technologies that improve the narrative for a long time, ” said Vanessa Holtgruwe, an international vice president of iatse, in an email statement. “But we have also been clear: AI should not be used to undermine the rights or livelihoods of workers.”
Iatse and other unions have continued to meet with major studies and establish provisions in efforts to provide guards around the use of AI. The Federation of Television Artists and the Screen Actors Radio has also been a member of AI protections for its members, a key point in recent work actions.
For the Runway Ai Film Festival, Valenzuela hopes that projection films that incorporate a video generated by AI can show what is possible, and as it says that technology can help, not harm, the creatives in the work they do today.
“It is natural that the fear of change … (but) is important to understand what you can do with this,” said Valenzuela. Even the cinema, he adds, was born “due to scientific advances that were very uncomfortable for many people at that time.”
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