AI-generated feature 'A Woman Asleep' enters major film festival's main competition
lmoroney · x · 2026-10-08
- Spongeworthy, a Turkish studio, has 'A Woman Asleep' selected for the Main Competition of Germany's 36th FilmFestival Cottbus — reportedly a first for an AI-generated feature at an established international festival.
- The 80-minute English film by Vikki Bardot (Gizem Avcioglu) is based on her semi-autobiographical script, inspired by Perec's 'A Man Asleep', narrated with an AI clone of her own voice, with visual models she trained herself.
- The final cut came from a pool of 50,000 shots over two years of work; the author suggests training a small LoRA style model on 20-30 of your own drawings or photos.
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