AI filmmaking is now a thing, and it's enabling creatives to share their ideas in new ways and with higher fidelity than ever before. As technology like Seedance gets into the hands of writers and directors, AI films are becoming more polished and watchable. New film CATACOMBS from filmmaker Kévin Mendiboure is one of those projects that may use AI to get the images up on screen, but like Kavan Cardoza's The Chronicles of Bone before it, making this movie has one foot firmly in old-fashioned filmmaking techniques and artistry.
CATACOMBS starts with a script, pre-production and prop creation, but rather than turn to film, Mendiboure begins prompting. As he says below in my interview, "The most important part of making a movie, AI or not, is the script. The camera or the AI is just a tool. The magic only happens when you have a good story to tell".
