‘Memory of princes Princess Mumbi Damien Hauser in AI, African Film

If AI comes for filmmakers, don’t say this to the director Damien Hauser.

In his last function, “memory of Princess Mumbi,” which premiere in Venice Dani Sidebar Venice Film FestivalThe young Swiss Kenyan Film film imagines Retro-futuristic Africa set in the consequences of the cataclysmic war, creating a rich visual tapestries, which makes it enough to use artificial intelligence.

The result – playful, bittersweet meta-fiction that is part of a love story, part of a mocking story that Hagar easily admits that he could never do without ai, even while he became a movie to “make a movie that could never make.” Variety.

“Remembering the Princess Mumbi” was set in 2093. year, as a young documentary film film, Cuve (Abraham Joseph), traveling to the kingdom was given after the Great War. There he meets Mumbi (Shandra Aponda), a free actress that causes him to become a movie without the use of AI. What begins as a playful discussion of the relationship between art, creativity and technology soon leads to bad romance, culminating the tragic death of young princess.

“The memory of Princess Mumbi” is produced from my mind in co-production with Hauserfilm. It produces Hauser and produced Kaleem Aftab and Shandra Aponda, with the support of the Red Sea Fund.

The film was born from a difficult period in the life of the director, because she complained the loss of his younger brother. It was as he sieved videos that bright time that Hauser decided to create something at the crossroads of loss and memory, which could go to the tragedy in his heart, helping him process his sorrow.

That decision informed the background for “Princess Mumbi” film-in-film Conceit, because the cookies pulled that the eulogizes their lost love through the cinema, even while becoming one of the most sought after directors on the planet. The performance of the most affordable AI technology, Hauser gives its imagination without a fantasy cuminating cinema exit and giving the Venetian day viclass, where “Prince Mumbi” premiered the lonely gondolyl in the room of the lonely gondoline in the year 2097. Years.

“Princess Mumbi” was mostly filmed on the shore of Kenya – “Lighting, the shadows, everything was real,” says Hauser – with the director that uses his futuristic world, using “old techniques from the 80s”, and only painted.

The software could create pictures in the flash, but the director revealed that it is far more challenging to make these images “work in a cinematographic context”. “I had recordings that lasted for weeks due to rotoscoping, composition and static images feel alive,” he says. Hauser used a mixture of tools – “One to generate, another for upgling, another to convert images to moving” – “Patchwork process” which looked in line with low low-fia low-nature.

And it develops on jumps and borders – that today he started “Princess Mumbi”, it estimates that Hauser will assess that the direction will revoke the director is strangely optimistic in where it moves. Despite the rating of the technological offer, Hauser still believes that there is a human element for film that cannot be played by the machine. And one day he could soon “make the most beautiful, most perfect art,” he says, but can only extrapolate from thousands of films already made. “The message of the film is that the emotional shade of questions is more than a formula.”

While the Director acknowledges that he is “afraid”, especially allowing film kakers to take over more “creative risks”, and democratizing tools of topping – in Africa and wider, which was exclusively in the hands of privileged several.

“So far, it’s always Hollywood spoke the stories of the whole world,” says Hauser. “And through this technology … (African movie regrets) can tell their stories. Not just Africa. We will get so many different perspectives and different types of narration.”