At a conference on film and artificial intelligence over the weekend in South Korea’s Bucheon, it was difficult to know whether the new technology was being embraced, normalized or underestimated.
Bucheon, a high-rise city on the outskirts of Seoul, has long harbored both high-tech and cultural industry aspirations. The city turned a WWII bunker into a digital art hub and boasts a comic book museum, a Webtoon convergence center and two film festivals as well as a Philharmonic Orchestra founded in the analog-era.
This year, its long-running Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) launched a competition for AI-produced short films, co-hosted a conference on the topic and operated a hands-on AI workshop. The embrace of AI felt like a brave response to every mature film festival’s fear of becoming stale.
The Bucheon conference’s impressive lineup of speakers included: Caleb Ward, CEO of Curious Ridge; directors Dave Clark,...
Bucheon, a high-rise city on the outskirts of Seoul, has long harbored both high-tech and cultural industry aspirations. The city turned a WWII bunker into a digital art hub and boasts a comic book museum, a Webtoon convergence center and two film festivals as well as a Philharmonic Orchestra founded in the analog-era.
This year, its long-running Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) launched a competition for AI-produced short films, co-hosted a conference on the topic and operated a hands-on AI workshop. The embrace of AI felt like a brave response to every mature film festival’s fear of becoming stale.
The Bucheon conference’s impressive lineup of speakers included: Caleb Ward, CEO of Curious Ridge; directors Dave Clark,...
- 7/11/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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