Tremble Hollywood: this video has been generated by an AI and has won an award at the Cannes festival

The creepy crow dance is proof that AI can also create videos with incredible results.

If you are one of those who hallucinate with the visual content generated with Artificial IntelligenceWe have another candy for you. The extraordinary potential of this technology becomes evident when we see the creations that are possible thanks to DALL-E or Midjourney, that from a few simple text commands are capable of creating images with incredible detail. This phenomenon has exploded very recently, and giants like Google have already jumped on the bandwagon looking to get their share of the pie.

However, until now the creations that made the most headlines were static images, but the potential of AI does not stop there. the digital artist Glenn Marshall has been awarded the jury prize for best short film at Cannes festival for his work “The Crow”, a video completely generated with Artificial Intelligence. It is not the first time that we see one of these “artificial videos”, but this one in particular is a pioneer, having been awarded in one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world.

Marshal used a library of stock videos and things he found on YouTube as a reference, a foundation that he then altered through CLIP, an OpenAI technology. The movement we see in the video was extracted from a choreographic short film under the title of “PAINTED“, and from there the hypnotic crow dance in his short film originated. By integrating the AI ​​on that basis the result was a gloomy but at the same time beautiful audiovisual piecewhich seems drawn from the mind of Edgar Allan Poe himself.

The short film generated by AI has won the jury prize at the Cannes festival // Cannes Film Festival

A dark and gloomy short film, but with great beauty in its presentation

In a interview with The Next WebMarshal explains how he has synced up with the AI ​​to bring the protagonist of his award-winning short film to life:

“This is what makes the movie work so well, because the AI ​​is trying to make each frame look like a frame with a raven in it, and I’m in the middle of that process, turning it into a video. The short becomes a kind of battle between the human and the AI, with all the suggestive symbolism”

Following its success at Cannes, The Crow is now eligible for presentation to the prestigious BAFTA awards. Marshal is very excited about this new artistic aspect, and believes that if we learn to get the most out of this technology we can use it to give life to a new format.