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‘About a Hero’ Director on How His AI Docufiction About Werner Herzog Highlights the ‘Consequences of Misinformation’ as We Enter a New Trump Era
The director of 'About a Hero,' a docufiction that used an AI tool to mimic the work of Werner Herzog, talks about how he wants to spark discussion.
“About a Hero” is a docufiction hybrid experiment that finds a starting point in Winiewicz and his team trying to develop an AI tool that can successfully mimic the work of renowned German director Werner Herzog. Of course, having Herzog’s blessing was one of the team’s great preoccupations, but Winiewicz reiterates his main priority was fostering an environment where his contributors could have open conversations about the creative process at hand and the tricky issues deriving from its themes. “People in film are allergic to acronyms, TV, VR, AI… It all sounds like bad science fiction novels, it doesn’t fit the romantic vocabulary of arthouse filmmaking.
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