Harmony Korine, Sporting Horned Mask, Talks Embrace Of AI For ‘Aggro Dr1ft’: “I Don’t Necessarily Think It’s An Existential Crisis” – Venice
deadline.comHarmony Korine has said he embraced AI technology for the making of his new experimental film Aggro Dr1ft which world premieres Out of Competition at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. “I think it’s a tool… I don’t necessarily think it’s an existential crisis.
I think if you’re looking at it as a creative tool, it’s very exciting,” he told the press conference. “We really saw it almost like the frosting on the cake.
It’s just another layer. It’s another paintbrush. It’s another colour. It’s another way to integrate imagery and sounds and to kind of play with the form.” Set against the backdrop of Miami’s criminal underbelly and revolving around a veteran hitman, the multi-layered film has been shot entirely through a thermal lens and has been likened to a video game by Korine rather than a traditional movie.
The Spring Breakers director attended the press conference wearing an intricate horned mask, alongside special effects director Joao Rosa and Eric Kohn, who was announced this week as the Head Of Strategy and Development, Film at the filmmaker’s new multidisciplinary design collective EDGLRD.
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