I’m suddenly seized by this urgent idea…an idea that that attending Wednesday afternoon’s (6.10) screening of Ash Koosha‘s Dreams of Violets, a 75-minute docudrama that was totally AI-created for $2K, is a necessary thing.
It’s very important to attend this Tribeca Film Festival screening, I’m thinking, because it’s the first all-AI film to play a major festival, and because it’ll be the first tangible taste of the death of Hollywood, at least as most of us have known it over the last several decades.
Alas, I’m uncredentialed and therefore will just be a sweating rush-line peon if I give it a shot. The odds of getting in are overwhelmingly negative. Maybe I should blow it off? I’m assuming it’ll be an underwhelmer. But it’s the start of something that may one day (two or three years hence?) lead to formidable cinema.
AI boilerplate: Dreams of Violets is a 75-minute docudrama directed and produced by Ash and Pooya Koosha. It’s the first feature film entirely generated by artificial intelligence.
Produced entirely by Ash Koosha from within his London flat, utilizing tools like Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, and Kling AI.
The entire project cost approximately $2,000 and took around two and a half months to complete.
Set in Tehran and Inspired by recent civilian resistance there, the film follows five strangers hiding from a violent soldier. Pic was produced as a memorial to victims of state violence. Using AI allowed the exiled Iranian directors to visualize real events while protecting the identities of those involved