Sessions Artefacto — 3rd edition

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.

Second edition of the 40-hour course on artificial intelligence applied to the film industry that Anna Giralt Gris and Jorge Caballero teach in the training programme of the Spanish Film Academy in Madrid. It combines theory and practice, from audiovisual analysis to text, image, video and sound generation, with case studies, workshops and work on each participant’s own project from a critical and ethical perspective.

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.