"AI movies have no soul" is the laziest critique, says filmmaker behind InVideo short 'Fun Size'
churchkey · x · 2026-10-12
Filmmaker Josh Daws pushes back on "AI movies have no soul," calling it the laziest critique in film right now: "The soul was never in the puppets or the camera. It's in the choices. Which take. Where to cut... I made every one of those choices. The machine just rendered them."
Citing John Ford directing 80+ films before Stagecoach, he argues AI filmmaking's real advantage is reps—instead of spending a year learning to sculpt puppets, he can practice storytelling far more. His Halloween short 'Fun Size' was made with InVideo.
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