--- title: "Someone’s Making an Entire Movie Using Video Generated by AI" description: "A guy with no background in film or artificial intelligence is working on making an entire movie, in an ambitious attempt to open filmmaking to the masses. " date: "2022-09-02" modified: "2022-09-02" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/making-entire-movie-video-generated-ai" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" tags: - "artificial intelligence" - "film" - "movies" - "the digest" --- # Someone’s Making an Entire Movie Using Video Generated by AI ![A guy with no background in film or artificial intelligence is working on making an entire movie, in an ambitious attempt to open filmmaking to the masses. ]() *\Image: Fabian Stelzer\* ## Outsider Art A guy with no background in film or artificial intelligence is working on making an entire movie — in a provocative attempt to demonstrate that generative AI art models can open ambitious levels of filmmaking to the masses. German [tech entrepreneur Fabian Stelzer]() told *PC Magazine* that his 70s-style sci-fi film “Salt” will feature all artificial voices except his own, and that generative models will also create the film’s footage and sound effects, too. https://twitter.com/SALT_VERSE/status/1536799731774537733 ## Salty Dogs From what Stelzer’s been posting to Twitter to tease his progress, the film apears to be about space travelers who encounter a planet with an overgrowth of bizarre salt — but beyond that basic premise, the neuroscientist is allowing his Twitter followers to determine which specific directions the film will go in a sort of “Choose Your Own Adventure” style for the AI age. “I definitely want to have a ‘Director's Cut’ at some point, or a ‘Community's Cut,’ but the real goal is to transcend the medium of film into something new,” he said. “Like enable everyone in the community to eventually use a model that lets them write their own scenes.” https://twitter.com/SALT_VERSE/status/1564962559983292417 ## Brave New World That transcendence mentality clearly plays out in Stelzer’s larger ethos surrounding AI and film, too. “We're on the verge of a new era, really,” Stelzer told *PCMag*. “To me this is as big as the invention of photography, and to be honest maybe as big as the invention of writing.” Using programs like DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, he’s generating the film’s imagery and audio by entering minute text descriptions of what he wants, which include everything from the graininess of the “camera” stock to a VHS distortion effect. “All big things start as experiments,” Stelzer told *PCMag*, and given how audacious his project is, it’s hard to not see the beauty in his. **READ MORE**: [The Footage in This Sci-Fi Movie Project Comes From AI-Generated Images]() \[*PCMag*\] **More on AI art:** [*AI-Generated Painting Wins State Fair Competition*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()