LET ME SHOW YOU THE BEAUTY OF FALLING FROM GRACE

Statement from Amine Boucekkine as the initiator of the project.
For this fantastic / surrealist audiovisual experimentation that would involve the extensive use of AI as far the imagery is concerned (AI was not used to create the music), I wanted to explore a drawing or painting influenced esthetics that would feel organic and vibrant. I teamed with director Jimena Aguilar, whose work on “Finnish and Paranoid Dream” has been an inspiration for me, and Goya awarded director Pablo Polledri did us the honor to provide his first ever AI animation work to create this short film based on my music and a short poem of mine.
This effort is clearly not about replacing traditional animation, as both in substance and in form, it consists in an homage paid to real painting and the highs and lows of the creative process. Technology simply allows us here to experiment a new form and create something different, a bit like an evolving type of deconstructive and reconstructive collage which the primary parts of would be custom generated according to personal visions and intuitions. We have tried to develop a surrealist imagery that is meant to embrace the mysterious flows of imagination and the subconscious and take the audience on a journey through the maelstrom of artistic creation.
Alongside this experimentation, I remain committed to push for more craftsmanship in a purist practical effects based approach in other cinematographic productions, as I firmly stand against the "deskilling" risk the development of AI might imply. Both processes can be complementary. This new technology can be dangerous, but it can also have a real powerful democratic value. Personally, I only use it for projects that I wouldn't have been able to produce otherwise, and I try to make sure that this use is as relevant and ethic as possible. More than ever, it's all about vision. The more AI is used, the more important it is that a real difference is made by the singularity of the artistic vision.