Dreams of Violets is a 75-minute fictional dramatization of the Iranian government’s mass killing of protestors in January, with people and images fully created by AI. The film was made for $2,000 and is based on journalistic reports, photographs, and eyewitness accounts. It was created by Ash and Pooya Koosha, brothers who left Iran in 2009, with Pooya co-founding Fountain 0 and Ash serving as CEO. Fountain 0 says it is the first full-length, live-action, AI-generated film accepted at a major film festival. The brothers used Google’s Nano Banana for images, Kling AI for video generation, and Anthropic’s Claude for language editing. The film will screen at Tribeca on June 10.
"Dreams of Violets is a 75-minute film that is a fictional dramatization of the Iranian government’s mass killing of protestors in January, with the people and images fully created by AI. Dreams of Violets cost $2,000 to make and is “based on journalistic reports, photographs, and eyewitness accounts,” according to a press release. It was created by Ash and Pooya Koosha, two brothers who left Iran in 2009."
"Fountain 0 says Dreams of Violets is the first full-length, live-action, AI-generated film to be accepted at a major film festival. As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, a costlier AI-generated film called Hell Grind screened at Cannes - but at a side event, not the main program. The Pooya brothers say they used Google's Nano Banana for images, Kling AI for video generation, and Anthropic's Claude for language editing."
"“We fully understand the very genuine sensitivities of those individuals working in the movie industry, and like them we are worried what the unknown implications are for the livelihoods of many,” the Kooshas say in the release. “But the reality is that this film never would have been made if it were not for the AI capabilities that we were able to develop.”"
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