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When Washed Out frontman Ernest Greene agreed to collaborate with filmmaker Paul Trillo on the world’s first music video to be made entirely using OpenAI’s video-generation tool Sora, he didn’t quite know what he was getting himself into. “To me, this is just a brand-new tool to explore,” Greene tells Rolling Stone. In his mind, the video — a dizzying, surreal, uncanny valley-ish tour through the life of a couple — was simply the boundary-pushing modern equivalent of, say, the early computer animation in Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” video.
- 5/9/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
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In 2023, generative artificial intelligence company Runway launched its AI Film Festival and received about 300 short-film submissions. A year later, the festival received over 3,000 and its 10 finalists premiered May 1 at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles.
In the last year, AI also has become a major point of contention in Hollywood, a topic of several labor strikes, and multiple panicked headlines. Meanwhile, filmmakers are using it.
“Among my peers, the reality is there’s more people using it than they’d like to admit,” said Paul Trillo, an AI filmmaker who spoke on a panel discussion at Wednesday’s Aiff moderated by IndieWire editor in chief Dana Harris-Bridson. “I’ve even seen people that pretend to be anti-ai, and they are using Midjourney, ChatGPT, they try and take a stance, but I know people are using things.”
Joining Trillo on the panel were Emmy-winning animator Joel Kuwahara, tech writer, artist, and...
In the last year, AI also has become a major point of contention in Hollywood, a topic of several labor strikes, and multiple panicked headlines. Meanwhile, filmmakers are using it.
“Among my peers, the reality is there’s more people using it than they’d like to admit,” said Paul Trillo, an AI filmmaker who spoke on a panel discussion at Wednesday’s Aiff moderated by IndieWire editor in chief Dana Harris-Bridson. “I’ve even seen people that pretend to be anti-ai, and they are using Midjourney, ChatGPT, they try and take a stance, but I know people are using things.”
Joining Trillo on the panel were Emmy-winning animator Joel Kuwahara, tech writer, artist, and...
- 5/3/2024
- by Brian Welk
- Indiewire
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Prompt: Hollywood loses its minds over an advanced new generative AI model called Sora that can create lifelike, movie-trailer quality videos from a few short lines of text in minutes.
That scenario unfolded last week when OpenAI, the San Francisco-based tech company behind the text-generating app ChatGPT and the image-generating tool Dall-e, teased its latest project, text-to-video AI model Sora. (The name is a Japanese word meaning sky that the creators chose because it “evokes the idea of limitless creative potential.” Or maybe they’re “Kingdom Hearts” fans).
After seeing what Sora could do, Tyler Perry was the biggest name to sound the alarm. He told THR he put an $800 million planned expansion of his Atlanta studio space on hold. “Jobs are going to be lost,” he said.
The Sora videos are striking. Woolly mammoths march toward you in cascading snow. People walk through a snowy, bustling Tokyo street as...
That scenario unfolded last week when OpenAI, the San Francisco-based tech company behind the text-generating app ChatGPT and the image-generating tool Dall-e, teased its latest project, text-to-video AI model Sora. (The name is a Japanese word meaning sky that the creators chose because it “evokes the idea of limitless creative potential.” Or maybe they’re “Kingdom Hearts” fans).
After seeing what Sora could do, Tyler Perry was the biggest name to sound the alarm. He told THR he put an $800 million planned expansion of his Atlanta studio space on hold. “Jobs are going to be lost,” he said.
The Sora videos are striking. Woolly mammoths march toward you in cascading snow. People walk through a snowy, bustling Tokyo street as...
- 2/26/2024
- by Brian Welk
- Indiewire
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Can Artificial Intelligence help better restore and preserve heritage cinema?
That was the question asked to a high-level panel on Thursday at the Classic Film Market, which runs alongside Lyon’s Lumière Film Festival, dedicated to heritage film.
Struggling to override the clatter of the heavy downpour hitting the ceiling of the tent set up next to the Lumière Institute for the duration of the festival, participants took part in a heated debate entitled Artificial Intelligence: A Tool for Heritage, in front of a packed room of industry professionals.
Opening the discussion, Barbara Mutz, in charge of legal and regulatory matters at France’s National Audiovisual Institute (Ina), said AI algorithms developed in-house hugely facilitate the archiving and location of its huge catalogue.
“We can index images and sound in a way that allows us to locate them [more easily] at a later stage, both for our own use and that of our users.
That was the question asked to a high-level panel on Thursday at the Classic Film Market, which runs alongside Lyon’s Lumière Film Festival, dedicated to heritage film.
Struggling to override the clatter of the heavy downpour hitting the ceiling of the tent set up next to the Lumière Institute for the duration of the festival, participants took part in a heated debate entitled Artificial Intelligence: A Tool for Heritage, in front of a packed room of industry professionals.
Opening the discussion, Barbara Mutz, in charge of legal and regulatory matters at France’s National Audiovisual Institute (Ina), said AI algorithms developed in-house hugely facilitate the archiving and location of its huge catalogue.
“We can index images and sound in a way that allows us to locate them [more easily] at a later stage, both for our own use and that of our users.
- 10/20/2023
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
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The Shins have returned with “The Great Divide,” a timely new single out on frontman James Mercer’s label, Aural Apothecary/Monotone Records.
The band released a video for the track — directed by Paul Trillo with creative direction from Jon Sortland — as well as a “Flipped” version on Amazon Music. It features trippy images floating through time, interspersed with deserted grocery stores and isolated streets. “Now an age has come out of the loneliness,” Mercer sings. “Your hand in mine/The great divide.”
“The Great Divide” was co-written by Mercer,...
The band released a video for the track — directed by Paul Trillo with creative direction from Jon Sortland — as well as a “Flipped” version on Amazon Music. It features trippy images floating through time, interspersed with deserted grocery stores and isolated streets. “Now an age has come out of the loneliness,” Mercer sings. “Your hand in mine/The great divide.”
“The Great Divide” was co-written by Mercer,...
- 9/24/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Short of the DayA breakdown with extreme consequences.
We’re going to finish this week with something really, really neat, and a filmmaking first. The short in question is called At the End of the Cul-de-Sac, and it comes from executive producer-writer-director Paul Trillo.
First let’s elaborate about that “filmmaking first” comment: this is the first short ever, Trillo says, to be shot in one take, from a drone, with dialogue. That’s right, the entire short was filmed by a hovering camera controlled by remote and zipping around a group of actors as they performed the scene. As if all that wasn’t impressive enough — and it very much so is, especially when you watch the short — the story at the film’s heart is a chilling social fable that would turn Shirley Jackson’s blood cold.
Without dipping into spoiler territory, the basic plot involves a man having a meltdown in the middle of...
We’re going to finish this week with something really, really neat, and a filmmaking first. The short in question is called At the End of the Cul-de-Sac, and it comes from executive producer-writer-director Paul Trillo.
First let’s elaborate about that “filmmaking first” comment: this is the first short ever, Trillo says, to be shot in one take, from a drone, with dialogue. That’s right, the entire short was filmed by a hovering camera controlled by remote and zipping around a group of actors as they performed the scene. As if all that wasn’t impressive enough — and it very much so is, especially when you watch the short — the story at the film’s heart is a chilling social fable that would turn Shirley Jackson’s blood cold.
Without dipping into spoiler territory, the basic plot involves a man having a meltdown in the middle of...
- 4/8/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Citing no shortage of innovation in the film festival space in the New York City area — with the Brooklyn Film Festival and Art of Brooklyn Film Festival also occurring during the same week — Williamsburg’s annual Northside Festival, the music and innovation conference phased out its film section in favor of “content.” Content, though, seems to be a rather loaded proposition and Northside’s Content Festival offered a glimpse inside how indie filmmakers can make a living.
The content side of the festival, making its debut in advance of the festival’s music and innovation portions, seemed more like a direct offshoot of innovation rather than the evolution of what had been the film section. Innovation in the content space seems to be defined by virtual reality and branded content. One thing the talks were short on were independent content makers, apart from Lex Dreitser, an independent Vr maker who...
The content side of the festival, making its debut in advance of the festival’s music and innovation portions, seemed more like a direct offshoot of innovation rather than the evolution of what had been the film section. Innovation in the content space seems to be defined by virtual reality and branded content. One thing the talks were short on were independent content makers, apart from Lex Dreitser, an independent Vr maker who...
- 6/17/2016
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
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Read More: Watch: Why Shooting 'Tangerine' on an iPhone Made Perfect Sense To prove the functionality of Vimeo's free Cameo app, which allows cinematic editing and sharing easily from an iPhone, filmmaker Paul Trillo made a short film (above) solely using the app. In it, he shows the life and death of an iPhone, though with an interesting spin: it's all from the iPhone's point of view. The short provides for some very relatable and comical moments as it follows the phone and its owner. Watch as he tries to take a selfie but instead finds out he's recording video, when he nearly gets the iPhone ripped from his hand in Grand Central Station and even when he drops it in the toilet. The dialogue proves relevant too, including a discussion on how no one can have a conversation anymore since everyone is constantly staring into a screen, all while...
- 6/25/2015
- by Ethan Sapienza
- Indiewire
In honor of Vimeo’s updated Cameo app, filmmaker Paul Trillo created a short film entirely shot and edited on an iPhone, appropriately titled “The Life and Death of an iPhone.” Trillo utilizes the phone’s Pov to create the illusion of a constant “feed” between cuts, which he accomplished in camera: Believe it or not the transitions are deceptively simple like a slight of hand. At the end of each take, we just did a quick wipe into black. The key is to do these moves at the same speed each time and make sure you’re cutting on precisely the right frame. I found that […]...
- 6/19/2015
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In honor of Vimeo’s updated Cameo app, filmmaker Paul Trillo created a short film entirely shot and edited on an iPhone, appropriately titled “The Life and Death of an iPhone.” Trillo utilizes the phone’s Pov to create the illusion of a constant “feed” between cuts, which he accomplished in camera: Believe it or not the transitions are deceptively simple like a slight of hand. At the end of each take, we just did a quick wipe into black. The key is to do these moves at the same speed each time and make sure you’re cutting on precisely the right frame. I found that […]...
- 6/19/2015
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Hp has joined forces with presenting partner Made in New York Media Center by Ifp (Filmmaker‘s publisher) to present Power Up, a five-day festival of new work and discussions centering around technology and creativity. Of particular interest to Filmmaker readers are events feature 25 New Faces Jessica Oreck and Andrew S. Allen; Paul Trillo’s short, A Truncated Story of Infinity, recently featured at Filmmaker; and a screening of director and Film Fatales founder Leah Meyerhoff’s debut feature, I Believe in Unicorns. Other notable events include an discussion on architecture with Daniel Libeskind and a panel on the VFX of James […]...
- 9/24/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Hp has joined forces with presenting partner Made in New York Media Center by Ifp (Filmmaker‘s publisher) to present Power Up, a five-day festival of new work and discussions centering around technology and creativity. Of particular interest to Filmmaker readers are events feature 25 New Faces Jessica Oreck and Andrew S. Allen; Paul Trillo’s short, A Truncated Story of Infinity, recently featured at Filmmaker; and a screening of director and Film Fatales founder Leah Meyerhoff’s debut feature, I Believe in Unicorns. Other notable events include an discussion on architecture with Daniel Libeskind and a panel on the VFX of James […]...
- 9/24/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Paul Trillo’s A Truncated Story of Infinity considers the limitless schema of possibilities that unfold over the course of a series of moments. The eight minute film — recently featured on Short of the Week — also boasts some pretty impressive practical effects for a budget of $10,000. I asked Paul to break down the means behind each technique, which he notes may not “the correct way” to render an effect, even if they look pretty fine to me. Hall of Mirrors at :00 “Our ‘mirror’ was just a framed piece of green on a wall. We did a simple dolly into the green so it […]...
- 7/31/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Paul Trillo’s A Truncated Story of Infinity considers the limitless schema of possibilities that unfold over the course of a series of moments. The eight minute film — recently featured on Short of the Week — also boasts some pretty impressive practical effects for a budget of $10,000. I asked Paul to break down the means behind each technique, which he notes may not “the correct way” to render an effect, even if they look pretty fine to me. Hall of Mirrors at :00 “Our ‘mirror’ was just a framed piece of green on a wall. We did a simple dolly into the green so it […]...
- 7/31/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Why Watch? Imbued with Eternal Sunshine‘s DNA, this fantastic short film from Paul Trillo makes repetition interesting and vibrant by framing a single, unimportant man on an unimportant day faced with unlimited possibilities Gorgeously dynamic visuals are to be expected from Trillo (see his previous work Salience), but not only do we get abstractions like an Escherian tea pot eternally pouring into a never-spilling cup, we also get to see the banal made fresh. Sometimes that’s through the subtlety of fingernail polish colors shifting, sometimes from a television smashing to the sidewalk. There’s also a hint of Stranger Than Fiction here, as the narrator for A Truncated Story of Infinity discusses his generic subject with dry witticism and flatly offered profundity. It’s the blend of those sweeping, plain as day observations and the beautiful photography of common paradoxes that makes this short film a wondrous delight. What...
- 7/28/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Why Watch? An experiential short to be sure, this work from Paul Trillo combines humanoid silhouettes with smart camera work and a bunch of colored dust to create some stirring visuals. In the deep description, it’s a potent force arising from figures who seem to evanescence right as they’re coming into focus. In the crude description, it’s like a few slender Predator’s walking through the loneliest Holi Festival. The point being that, even at the surface level, the effect is mesmerizing. What Will It Cost? About 5 minutes A New Short Film Every Weekday...
- 10/15/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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