In this interview, Alex Gibney talks about turning Elon Musk’s destructive worldview, informed by video games, simulations, and self-invention, inside
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In this interview, the filmmakers behind The End of Times talk about using AI to reimagine our ways of thinking about family, memory, and history
With the rise of AI documentaries, we outline the worrying tropes these projects can’t seem to escape
As filmmakers increasingly rely on AI tools to optimize the editing process, we must ask: What is it teaching us to see, and what might we overlook as
As the distinction between AI’s use as an assistant and as a creative tool blurs, what this means for AI enhancement demands close scrutiny
Valerie Veatch traces the links between AI and eugenics in Sundance-premiering Ghost in the Machine , a self-funded documentary treatise made with
In this interview, Marc Isaacs discusses his latest provocation, a hybrid doc set at the fictional “Synthetic Sincerity Lab”
OpenAI’s Sora 2 mainstreams the collapse between irony and information, threatening the basic conditions under which documentary can operate
The venerable Swiss festival featured its usual boundary-pushing works alongside industry activities that showcased documentary’s capacity to adapt
Revolutionary! Magical! Game-changing! These are some of the words being used to describe the results of AI-generated upscaling tools for archival and low-resolution footage. Some documentarians have turned to Video AI from Topaz Labs, a software featuring a suite of 30-plus AI models for video enhancement. To learn more about Video AI and the future of AI-assisted video upscaling, Documentary interviewed the Topaz CEO and Co-founder Eric Yang.