Story and real world physics in AI filmmaking with Kavan Cardoza
We are back in the trenches of film creativity with leading film director and innovator Kavan Cardoza, deep into his ambitious construction of The Chronicles of Bone, a dark fantasy series that folds public domain…
The Auteur & The Machine
In the past couple of years, the idea of artificial intelligence being introduced to high-end filmmaking has been met with significant skepticism. When a Lion’s Gate executive announced plans to train an AI video…
Cinema is a Lie
When I started playing with AI filmmaking, my 12-year-old daughter became my in-house fake detector. Every time I showed her a shot or a scene, she’d squint, frown, and tell me whether it looked “real”. It became a…
Kavan Cardoza and the Future of Cinema
I spoke to California-based director Kavan Cardoza (aka Kavan the Kid) about his shift from traditional filmmaking to the frontier of AI cinema. We discussed authorship in machine-generated art, the founding of Phantom…
The Role of the Actor in the Age of AI
Some of the acting we can watch on screens these days is impressive and disturbing in equal measure. Realistic performances, emotional exchanges, and quite magic moments. Except it didn’t involve any actors. It’s a…
Karloff, conversations on AI Filmmaking
In the next few years, the world as we know it will be profoundly changed. No warning, no debate, just the power of technology transforming work, family, religion, society, politics, economics and war. The struggles…