'behind the curtain' liminal space horror short film all sound fx, voice and music by @epidemicsound tracks: Lennon Hutton - Dead Silence Belladonna Strings - Don't Look Mary Riddle - Bad Dreams #CuriousRefuge & #EpidemicSound

Some candid thoughts here as I look at my actual cinema camera sitting comfortably on its storage shelf…..I think we’ll be alright. Everyone is free to raise funds and make films in the real world like we always have. This is simply an alternative. As a director who’s gone through that grueling fundraising process a few times, this is a pretty fun alternative to explore. Turning a visual story that is in my head into a viable creation that can be shared with an audience is an amazing process, it’s what got me into the film industry in the first place. To me it matters much less what tools are being used and matters much more what stories are being told and what emotions are being communicated. That is the art form of modern filmmaking. You take a big pile of footage (from wherever it came from: video camera, imax camera, an AI video model, stock footage, etc), and then TRY to craft it into something that makes people feel something. In terms to AI filmmaking, I really see this as a big beta test, and it’s incredible to be part of it and using the skills I’ve honed as a film editor/director/VFX artist to help improve this new medium. Hilarious sensationalist headlines like “the cure is worse than the disease” make storytellers who are actually experimenting with these tools (whether you think it’s slop or not) crack up with laughter as they close their browser tab and get back to work on whatever it is they’re actually making and sharing. It’s okay to have fun and try a new medium of visual storytelling. It’s definitely not stopping anytime soon.

All good things…