A feature-length film made entirely with AI is heading to one of the world's major film festivals. Dreams of Violets will premiere at next month's Tribeca Festival, marking a significant moment for AI-generated cinema.
The 75-minute film dramatizes the Iranian government's mass killing of protestors in January. Every person and image you'll see on screen was created by AI, no actors or cameras involved.
Here's the striking part: the entire production cost $2,000. For context, that's less than what most indie films spend on catering for a single day of shooting.
The film was created by brothers Ash and Pooya Koosha, who left Iran in 2009. They built it using journalistic reports, photographs, and eyewitness accounts as source material. Pooya co-founded Fountain 0, the company behind the film, with Ash serving as CEO.
For anyone working with AI tools, this is a concrete example of how generative AI is collapsing production costs in creative industries. Whether that's exciting or concerning probably depends on which side of the camera you usually stand on.
The bigger question: can AI-generated characters carry emotional weight in a story about real human tragedy? Tribeca audiences will be the first to find out.
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