AI applied to the film industry — 2nd edition (Spanish Film Academy)

A talk by Jorge Caballero on the impact of artificial intelligence on documentary, organised by ECAM, the film school of the Community of Madrid, as part of the Porto Industry Days at the Porto/Post/Doc festival. That same night the festival screens Atlas of Disappearance by Manuel Correa, produced by Artefacto, in Special Screenings and Human Rights in Motion.

A seven-day lab for the Master of Film at the Netherlands Film Academy, working on the material students bring from the previous labs of the semester. The first three days are about analytic AI, the models that read what already exists without generating anything: transcription, shot breakdowns, searching hours of material by meaning and classifying large corpora under one’s own taxonomy. From day four the lab turns to image, video and voice generation, starting with how the models work and what to ask before choosing one, with a log of every generated asset and an ethics note by each student within the framework of the EU AI Act. The last day is for presentations and a group critique.

Third edition of Sessions Artefacto, the first one organised with the research group Cuerpos Conectados at the University of Barcelona. On 29 October the Artefacto studio in Poblenou brought together filmmakers, visual artists and researchers from the humanities and social sciences who presented projects on archives and mass memory, spatial narratives and 3D models, visual cartographies and critical approaches to algorithms, with places also open to listeners. With the support of ICEC and the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.