HeyJaredAI Cinema By Elettra Fiumi
The creators, craft, and culture of AI cinema — documented from the inside, frame by frame by award-winning AI Filmmaker & Educator Elettra Fiumi.
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Filmmakers Are Told Never to Do This (opens the original)
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A note before we start: this article is about a film with no AI in it at all. But stay with me. This October, an exhibition I’m curating opens at Drop City in Milan, an exhibition built around four tunnels. One entire tunnel is dedicated to the archive behind this film, where we're leveraging AI to analyze and explore the material and its storytelling. It's becoming a case study in what AI can actually do for archival work and documentary film, and I'll be writing about it here in the months ahe
You can’t prompt your way out of it. You just have to go through it. (opens the original)
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After a difficult fertility journey, one of the things that finally helped me get pregnant naturally was fixing my gut health. I’m lactose intolerant. Not dramatically, not in a way that sends you to the hospital. Just a low-grade intolerance creating low-grade inflammation, quietly working against my body. I cut it out, made a few other adjustments and then got pregnant. I was thinking about this again this week, and I realized: that’s AI filmmaking.Stay with me.<a class="image-link image2 is-v
40 Hours a Day, 3 Hours a Spot, 20 Million Views: AI and Film This Month (opens the original)
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I have a folder of screenshots on my phone that fills up faster than I can process it. Somewhere between a Google Pixel ad, a lime-green zine that says AI MUST DIE, and a photo of a Chinese office producing forty hours of AI vertical microdrama a day, I realised the folder was the newsletter. So this issue is that: a rundown, in the order things caught my eye, with some personal news threaded through.First, the newsI’m now part of Curious Refuge’s DNA. The Distinguished Network of Artists is the
How We Built a Film With a Team of Agents (opens the original)
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Before we get into it, this one is co-written with my Gardener of Cocytus co-director Bibi Nuñez. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="813" src="https://substackcd
We Made a Film About 2089 (the process) (opens the original)
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