How long until families are spending their Saturday nights watching AI-generated shows on the big screen, without a big deal being made of the fact that it's AI?
We already watched this happen with YouTube. Hollywood laughed at the "amateurs" until the audience decided they'd rather watch independent creators on their living room TVs than a network sitcom.
The masses don’t ask about production pipelines. They just want magic.
I’ve learned so much already from this process that I can use in my IRL films. Making AI films is a great way for traditional filmmakers to learn, develop craft, and style, experiment and make mistakes at a way lower price point. I’ve learned more about film from this process than I did in 3 years of film school.
The solopreneur filmmaker is the new archetype.
One person handling writing, generation, sound design, editing, color, and distribution.
It's exhausting and...
...it's the most creatively free anyone has ever been.
You're not allowed to use AI to make films—you need to shoot every frame on real celluloid with a crew and lights and a director calling action, no wait, letting a machine expose the film is cheating, you need to paint every frame by hand on glass slides for a magic lantern, no wait, projecting light through glass is technology, you need to perform live shadow puppets behind a screen by firelight, no wait, the screen is woven fabric from mills, you need to carve charging bison with extra legs on a cave wall so they seem to gallop in the flicker of torchlight, no wait, fire is technology, you need to gesture stories with your bare hands in the dark...
#ai
Outtakes: The Cinema Exotica - S01E02
Sora 2 was something else… just the character generating capabilities were mind blowing enough! Here’s a little insight into how many generations I went through before I got something I was happy with.
#sora2#filmnoir#aifilm#AiCinema
Opium Den Final Boss - The Ninth Circle (1995) 🪭
A burned-out smuggler in 1990s Kowloon wages war against a powerful Triad syndicate after their boss hijacks his mind with a mind-altering serum that weaponizes his own dreams.
Made with:
MidJourney v8.1 Grok Imagine Seedance 2.0 , Nano Banana 2 (Inside @Hailuo_AI )
Music: Thievery Corporation - Shaolin Satellite #seedance2#aifilm#AiCinema#neonoir#1990s
Woot! You can now simulate real world places by grounding Genie 3 experiences with Street View imagery.
Google sitting on the mother lode of real world data, and is starting to put it to work!
Let's dive into some prompts & locations I tested...
The Markko Polo Adventurers – Orienta (1958) 🪭🐅
Cinema Exotica presents a moving album cover of this cult 1958 exotica classic.
Fictional studio project arranged & conducted by Gerald Fried (later Star Trek & Roots composer). Recorded in Hollywood, released 1959 by RCA Victor.
Night Of The Tiger — pure mysterious orchestral magic ✨
Created with Nano Banana 2 Seedance 2.0 @Hailuo_AI
Music: The Markko Polo Adventurers - Night Of The Tiger
#ExoticaMusic#Orienta#1950s#VintageExotica#GeraldFried
Robert Mitchum – Calypso “Is Like So!” (1957) 🔥
Hollywood’s toughest guy went full tropical in Trinidad — jamming with Mighty Sparrow & Lord Melody, then dropped this rum-soaked calypso masterpiece on Capitol Records.
Steel drums, witty lyrics & that signature Mitchum cool. Pure late-50s exotica vibes.
Moving album cover made with Nano Banana Pro Seedance 2.0 @Hailuo_AI
🎵 “Not Me” playing now
#RobertMitchum#Calypso#1950s#Exotica#VintageMusic