NEW YORK – With fantastical characters including mud people and giant grandmothers, an AI film festival is giving a glimpse of the storytelling made possible by the novel technology.
Nearly 3,000 short films were submitted to the festival organised by Runway AI, one of the leading start-ups in the field of artificial intelligence-powered video generation. The 10 films selected put the film-makers’ vivid imaginations on display, with their stories set in aesthetically stunning universes.
“There is a perception of… AI-driven film-making and creation as having a very specific style,” said Runway co-founder and chief technology officer Anastasis Germanidis. But each of the selected films “feels very different from the other one”, he said on May 9 at the festival’s awards ceremony.
