Videos of War
I didn't intend to make videos of this type, but life, and death, forced me to
From the Hill
an AI video suite in 4 movements
This is the first video I realized using only AI tools, and it was initially intended as an homage to Edgar Lee Masters' "spoon river anthology" to be published the day of the dead. But the increasingly worrying news of wars and exterminations of children disturbed me to the point that they ended up spilling over into the contents of the video, which resulted in the addition of two extra "movements" to the suite, the "United colors of guilt" movements " and "the mutilation fields", initially designed to contain only the "anthology" and the "faces from the hill of the world", as well as a prologue and epilogue. It changed the meaning and direction of the video I had in mind, but I couldn't remain indifferent to the news, and the result, after all my tears were shed, is what you can see here.
The video contains very strong images, you have been warned.
Tools:
Adobe Photoshop, SDXL in local for the photos, ElevenLabs AI Text-to-Speech, Runway AI text to video, LeiaPix 2dto3d depth videos, Mubert AI generated music, Powerdirector365 editing video.
the First Victim
This is another video/slideshow I made totally from scratch with AI tools, and is another work of... I don't know how to define it anymore, maybe "frustration" is the right word, with "rage" and "desperation" pretty close. Its history lies totally in its incipit, "in every war the first victim is alway innocence". The dissonating contrast with the optimistic poem of R.L. Stevenson "the Good Boy", is meant to make the viewer reflect on how the war, EVERY war, inevitably rips apart the innocence from a generation of children.
Be warned that it's full with pretty strong images, as every war is.
Tools:
Adobe Photoshop, Midjourney for the photos, ElevenLabs AI Text-to-Speech, Soundful AI generated music, Powerdirector365 editing video.