{"id":23341,"date":"2026-06-03T04:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/the-cgi-would-have-cost-millions-i-spent-2000-is-dreams-of-violets-ai-slop-or-the-future-of-film-making\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T04:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:37:26","slug":"the-cgi-would-have-cost-millions-i-spent-2000-is-dreams-of-violets-ai-slop-or-the-future-of-film-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/the-cgi-would-have-cost-millions-i-spent-2000-is-dreams-of-violets-ai-slop-or-the-future-of-film-making\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.\u2019 Is Dreams of Violets AI slop \u2013 or the future of film-making?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It should have taken years, but Ash Koosha made a drama about Iran\u2019s anti-government protests in weeks \u2013 and now it\u2019s the first AI-made movie to screen at a major film festival. It could transform indie film-making, claims the director<\/p>\n

Next week a breakthrough 75-minute drama about the brutal crackdown in Iran on anti-government protesters in January will premiere at the Tribeca film festival in New York. It is called Dreams of Violets<\/a> and is based on journalism, video footage and eyewitness accounts. \u201cI would say 80% of it is a recreation of events that actually happened,\u201d says its Iranian-British director Ash Koosha. But Dreams of Violets is a work of fiction, not a documentary: a drama following a group of strangers caught up in the protests, who meet by chance in an alleyway. How on earth has Koosha managed to pull together a drama about the killings in less than six months?<\/p>\n

The answer, it turns out, is by using artificial intelligence. Every image and character in Dreams of Violets is AI-generated. Koosha says he created the characters by describing their physical appearances, using people he has known in the past as references. It would be too dangerous to base characters on living people in Iran, he says. \u201cBecause of the security issue, it would not be safe for the characters to even remotely resemble someone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nIt should have taken years, but Ash Koosha made a drama about Iran\u2019s anti-government protests in weeks \u2013 and now it\u2019s the first AI-made movie to screen at a major film festival. It could transform indie film-making, claims the director
\nNext week a breakthrough 75-minute drama about the brutal crackdown in Iran on anti-government protesters in January will premiere at the Tribeca film festival in New York. It is called Dreams of Violets and is based on journalism, video footage and eyewitness accounts. \u201cI would say 80% of it is a recreation of events that actually happened,\u201d says its Iranian-British director Ash Koosha. But Dreams of Violets is a work of fiction, not a documentary: a drama following a group of strangers caught up in the protests, who meet by chance in an alleyway. How on earth has Koosha managed to pull together a drama about the killings in less than six months?
\nThe answer, it turns out, is by using artificial intelligence. Every image and character in Dreams of Violets is AI-generated. Koosha says he created the characters by describing their physical appearances, using people he has known in the past as references. It would be too dangerous to base characters on living people in Iran, he says. \u201cBecause of the security issue, it would not be safe for the characters to even remotely resemble someone.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It should have taken years, but Ash Koosha made a drama about Iran\u2019s anti-government protests in weeks \u2013 and now it\u2019s the first AI-made movie to screen at a major film festival. It could transform indie film-making, claims the director Next week a breakthrough 75-minute drama about the brutal crackdown in Iran on anti-government protesters …<\/p>\n

\u2018The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.\u2019 Is Dreams of Violets AI slop \u2013 or the future of film-making?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}