Barcelona Dinner Festival +RAIN Cinema AI Exhibition 2024: 10 Films Compete in International Event

Ten films will compete in the dinner festival +RAIN (Barcelona, ​​June 11-14), an event that will influence generational AI in the audiovisual field with the presence of some of the most prominent profiles in research and industry.

The Room under construction in Pompeu Fabra University Poblenou Campus hosted the presentation of the second edition of the + RAIN Film Festival, the first international film festival created by artificial intelligence. Directed from the Pompeu Fabra University and organized by Sonarthe festival directs its gaze towards the researchthe conscious experimentation y reportand integration of the Generative AI in audiovisual and artistic creation processes. In the words of his co-director, Jordi Balló: “This is a festival where films are born, not die. We see it with the increase in the proposals submitted to the call. At +RAIN we want the works to be projected into the future.”

The second edition of +RAIN has received a total of Movies 232, five times more than the proposals received in its first edition, coming from the five continents and with representation from more than 40 countries. Final selection of 10 movies competing in the FEST category, where an international jury made up of Shyam Sundar, Mads Dambso and Cristina Mont (Director of Innovation at the Lavinia Group) will award three awards to the films: Best Film (€3,000), Jury Prize (€2,000) and Special Mention (€1,000). The screening of the 10 films selected from the international call will take place in the FEST section and will be accompanied by discussions and presentations by their creators.

The titles are final Finnish dream and paranoid (Jimena Aguilar, Argentina), Skopje 2014 According to ChatGPT (Paulin Blanchet, France), Fried eggs (Rucha Thigale, UK), Wipe out the desert (Felipe Elgueta, Chile), DUAN (Rachel Maclean, UK), Metallurgist time (Tomáš Rampula, Czech Republic), When people talk about their dead, they look up (Anna Halbleib, Spain) Home age to Avalokitesvara (Maria Than, UK), 512X512 (Arthur Chopin, France) and Disease (Jonas Sanson, Brazil).

some most representative subjects in this year’s edition there is the reflection on the control society, the political criticism of populisms that are emerging on a global level, the questioning of the images created by the imagination of the tourists, the visual and narrative to explore the territory of the unconscious or native. violence in human beings, together with the metalinguistic reflection around AI which is still the main subject for many artists.

Demonstration and training at +RAIN

To understand the changes that are being made in the creative processes and working methods, the second day of +RAIN will host the history of the creative process of the film About a Hero. Guided by director Piotr Winiewicz and producer Mads Dambso, the successes and mistakes in the use of different methods and tools based on AI can be seen. +RAIN also hosts a Live film process where you can see three creative processes of three visual artists: Laura Ginès, Martina Rogers and Carolina Torres, thanks to the collaboration of Apolinario Pássos and Radamés Ajaa from Hugging Face.

he is closing film, Latex baby, by Fran Gas, the winner of the last edition of +RAIN, the vision that the talent shown in the previous issue has continuity and, at the same time, it wants to show +RAIN’s commitment to national artists young people entering the field. I work with generative AI. The Catalan filmmaker Carmen Puche, another of the latter from the previous edition by My Worda special piece of the Artificial Intelligence exhibition at the CCCB, presenting his next work in the RAINNOVA section (project exhibition space).

+RAIN will be added by Researcha space focused on current and future research in the creation of audiovisual content with generative AI that will be hosted at the Poblenou campus of Pompeu Fabra University; Livedescribed as a “musical and audiovisual event of a performative nature” with live sessions and art installations; Yesa place for reflection, discussion and exchange where sixty international experts in AI meet at the Montjuïc Festival, Sonar headquarters during the day, and the AI & WEB Creators Conference3, a place for inspiration, discussion and presentation about new and other industries, around the cultural and creative industries, and applied art research projects with emerging technologies. Additionally, from June 17 to 30, all programs for the second edition of +RAIN will be available online at of the film.

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