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Francesco Carrozzini’s 90-minute documentary portrait of Diesel founder Renzo Rosso premiered out of competition at Venice after using generative AI as a structural storytelling and image-making tool across the film.
View FilmFrancesco Carrozzini’s 90-minute documentary portrait of Diesel founder Renzo Rosso premiered out of competition at Venice after using generative AI as a structural storytelling and image-making tool across the film. Generative AI and AI processing were used extensively across the film’s visual language, including reconstruction of moments without original footage and transformation of archival/interview imagery. The production says it built a custom workflow over roughly 18 months while retaining filmmaker control over each element.
Generative AI and AI processing were used extensively across the film’s visual language, including reconstruction of moments without original footage and transformation of archival/interview imagery. The production says it built a custom workflow over roughly 18 months while retaining filmmaker control over each element.
Be Brave pushes the AI-film conversation beyond short-form demos: an established director and major production company used an 18-month custom workflow to reshape documentary imagery while keeping human direction and editorial control central. It raises a genuinely interesting question about what documentary truth looks like when some of the images that carry memory were never photographed.
Liz Garbus / Story Syndicate / Primordial Soup / Google DeepMind
Documentary short
Andy Serkis, Josh Nelson Youssef / Imaginarium Productions / Boona / Google 100 Zeros / 3DAR
Mixed reality
Mikhail Golovin
Horror · Short
Action