Artist Lecture: Directing the Unpredictable, with Herinarivo Rakotomanana

ABOUT THE LECTURE Every director works somewhere between control and chance. Herinarivo Rakotomanana works there on purpose. Coming to AI filmmaking from analog street photography and music-video directing, his practice treats the generative model as something you can only partly steer, and asks what happens to the directorial gesture when the frame you plan and the frame the machine returns are rarely the same. His lecture traces that question across his own films. With More Tears Than Harm, a painterly animation built from personal memories, he shows how he establishes a "visual DNA" to… Hosted by AIxDESIGN