MANIFESTO UMANISTA PER UN CINEMA IN INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE

• No more excuses. Anyone can make cinema now. You have a responsibility.
• Error is your ally. The only truly interesting image produced by AI is its hallucination—that moment when the machine stops imitating us.
• Don’t be seduced by high definition. Don’t fear noise and imperfections. They’re what will make your algorithmic image compelling.
• The dialogue with the machine happens in natural language. You need to know the words. And choose them wisely.
• Every algorithm carries its own aesthetic. Let it erupt.
• Keep a human element in the production process. No further specifications needed.
• Return to the history of cinema before the machine chews it up for you.
• Nostalgia for the auteurs you loved is poison. Open-source AI [whose code is accessible and modifiable] is the antidote. Crave forms that are yours alone.
• Every algorithmic image has its own algorithmic sound. Every algorithmic sound has its own algorithmic image.
• Study theory, learn the language of cinema. The rest is automatic processing.
• Your authorial identity lives in the struggle against the machine. Never comply. Unless you’re deceiving it.
• Pursue deformity. There’s nothing more boring, false, and rhetorical than photorealism.
• An initial image is all you need for your story.
• A film made with AI is always a film about AI. But be careful: if your writing makes that obvious, you’ve already failed.