Michael Keaton Douglas:<\/b> “The whole AI of it all was interesting to me, and then it got more interesting as we discussed things throughout filming\u2026\u00a0 It\u2019s not at all science fiction anymore. The one thing I wanted to do, and I think we did, was say, okay, but how does that apply to human emotion? Humans are still more complex.”<\/p>\n
Sean Douglas:<\/b> \u201cLooking back, it kind of came from a more personal place than I realized when I started\u2026 I always kind of knew it was evoking certain things about my mom, who passed away a long time ago. But I didn\u2019t really put it together until I finished the first draft of it.”<\/p>\n
“The best thing about this was, this short film is the first thing that we\u2019ve really worked together on, and it was a really nice experience. I had this idea knocking around, and I had a hard time green-lighting myself to go and finish things. And here\u2019s a reason [AI on Screen program] to go and finish writing this. And so I did that.\u201d<\/p>\n
As AI moves out of science fiction and into our everyday lives, narrative films present a powerful opportunity to explore and showcase how we want to coexist with this technology. Film can not only shape our popular imagination, it can also spark important societal conversations, such as those around the growing trend of generative ghosts<\/a>\u2014the digital preservation of our loved ones\u2014a concept central to this short film.<\/p>\n As \u201cSweetwater\u201d now prepares for a film festival run, we\u2019re more committed than ever to the AI on Screen initiative and our goal of supporting a diverse range of voices exploring this pivotal moment in technology and storytelling. Stay tuned for more updates on \u201cSweetwater\u201d and our second commissioned film, \u201cLucid,\u201d coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Keaton Douglas: “The whole AI of it all was interesting to me, and then it got more…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":234458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,75958,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-234457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-none","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115221088745197054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}