‘The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.’ Is Dreams of Violets AI slop – or the future of film-making?
Summary
Dreams of Violets is a 75-minute drama about protests in Iran, created almost entirely using artificial intelligence (AI). Directed by Ash Koosha, it is the first fully AI-generated live-action feature accepted at a major film festival and was made quickly and inexpensively using AI tools.Key Facts
- Dreams of Violets tells a fictional story based on real events in Iran’s crackdown on protesters in January.
- The film was made mostly with AI, including all images and characters.
- The director, Ash Koosha, used descriptions of people he knew but avoided basing characters on real Iranians for safety reasons.
- The film will premiere at the Tribeca film festival in New York.
- This is the first fully AI-generated live-action film accepted at a major festival, marking a new step for AI in movies.
- Koosha is also a tech entrepreneur and co-founder of an AI startup and studio specializing in AI-made films.
- The film’s script was written by Koosha but refined with an AI language chatbot called Claude.
- Koosha plans to use licensed real faces for characters in his next AI film, which could allow actors to sell their image rights separately.
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