An Eye for AI Cinema
Exhibition at USF Verftet, in cooperation with Bergen International Film Festival
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Is artificial intelligence destroying cinema as we know it? Are we entering the age of the computer-generated DIY film? AI brings tumultuous changes to the established film industry, at the same time as it is creating new opportunities for independent filmmakers, and perhaps even birthing new genres of moving image art.
This exhibition of short narrative films, curated by the XDN team at the UiB's Center for Digital Narrative, provides an early glimpse into some innovative experiments with AI technologies that may redefine how movies are made in the future.
The exhibition is open throughout the festival period.
Exhibition:
An eye for AI Cinema
October 15th-23rd
Opening hours 14-20
Friday 17th October
16:00 - 17:30 About a hero, film screening in Cinemateket, USF
17:30 - 19:00 Opening event and panel about AI Cinema in Visningsrommet, USF
Works
Laurent Basset
AFFAIR IN MARSEILLE, 2025
Duration: 21m 22s
Medium: Digital. Google Flow/Veo, Suno, ElevenLabs
Seif Abdalla
HANAA, 2025
Duration: 3m 55s
Medium: Documentary (Live Action)/ AI Film
Micol Hebron
Study of animals in motion in the style of Eadweard Muybridge, 2025
Medium: Digital. Midjourney, v.5.1
Simon M. Valentine
One Last Wish, 2024
Duration: 3m 52s
Medium: Animated short, ChatGPT/Midjourney/Magnifique/Photoshop/After Effects/Act One (Runway)/Kling/Elevenlabs/Premiere/Topaz
Sebastian Macchia
Optimals, 2025
Duration: 20m 00s
Medium: AI Film — Midjourney, Adobe Photoshop, Kling, Runway, LumaAI, Hailou.ai, Hedra, ElevenLabs, Suno, Udio, Meta AudioGen, Adobe Premiere
Sachiko Hayashi, Nina Sobell
Echoes Unseen, 2024
Duration: 2m 15s, 5m 01s, 5m 04s
Medium: Moon Valley Generative AI video trilogy
Lina Ruth Harder & Colin Robinson
Wherever I go, you’re always with me, 2025
Media: Digital, interactive. AI Animation — Wan2.1-VACE-14B, FLUX.1-Depth-dev, dpt-large, openpose, Runpod, ComfyUI
Scott Robert Rettberg
Donneagain’s wake (Riverrun fascistquick), 2025
Duration: 6m 14s
Media: Digital. AI Video — Runway (Gen-4, Gen-4 Turbo, Act Two), ChatGPT 5, ElevenLabs
David Jhave Johnston
Brain-knot Altar, 2025
Duration: Approx. 30m total of looping variable length videos
Media: Multi-Screen AI Video Installation — Veo3, Runway, Fal.ai, Flux.dev Kontext, GPT-5, Gemini, Suno, ElevenLabs, DeepGram, Topaz, Seedance v1, Seedream v4, + Italian Brain Rot cards (supplied courtesy of Gabrielle de Seta)
Colin Robinson, PM: Ola Roth Johnsen, Contributors: Jhave Johnston, Scott Rettberg, Andreas Hadsel Opsvik
Poster-Photo Booth, 2025.
Media: Interactive AI Image-Generation Booth, - Participatory!