Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival: Here's why AI filmmaking is stealing the spotlight
The 29th
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
(BIFAN) is making waves, and not just for its wild genre films. This year, the hottest topic is artificial intelligence. From international AI film competitions to hands-on workshops and a major conference, BIFAN is going all-in on exploring what happens when machines start making movies.
The opening film, '
Finding Him
,' directed by Piotr Winiewicz, is a total game-changer. The script? Written by an AI that binge-watched every Werner Herzog film ever made. Imagine an AI trying to capture the quirky, philosophical style of a legendary director - and then humans actually filming it, word for word, with no edits. That's the kind of experiment that makes you wonder: are we witnessing the birth of a new kind of cinema, or just a high-tech gimmick?
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Winiewicz didn't set out to copy Herzog or poke fun at him. Instead, he wanted to see what happens when you let AI loose on the creative process. The result? A story about a mysterious death in a fictional German city, narrated in a documentary style that feels eerily Herzog-like. But here's the twist: the AI's original title was 'A Surprisingly Ordinary Dreaming Hero.' Not exactly mind-blowing, right?
This is where things get real for young creators. We expect AI to show us wild, impossible worlds, but sometimes it just spits out something... ordinary. It's a reminder that, for now, AI can remix what it's learned, but it can't quite leap into the unknown the way a human can. The film doesn't just show off tech - it asks us to question what's real, what's fake, and how much we trust the stories we're told, especially in a world flooded with social media and deepfakes.
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