Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture At the French Riviera Film Festival, which is being held at the same time as the Cannes Film Festival in southeastern France, the short video “Be my double” created by artist Fuyumi Kusamori using generative artificial intelligence (AI) won the top award in the micro-short category.
Kusamori, 50, told the Mainichi Shimbun in an interview, “I’m glad that it’s being appreciated not only for its novelty that it was created using AI, but also as a movie.”
Kusamori is from Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture, and studied visual expression at Meiji Gakuin University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Art. He is active as a multimedia artist and has been working on video works using generative AI for about three years. He submitted his films to the French Riviera Film Festival held on May 15th and 16th to recognize outstanding short videos, two of which made it to the final round.
The winning work is a contemporary art short work, a poetic film about a lonely girl wandering in a quiet world surrounded by silver mirrors. Mr. Kusamori said that this work presents, in the form of visual poetry, the same question posed by ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuang Zhou’s “Dream of the Butterfly,” in which dreams become indistinguishable from reality.
Director Kusamori, who was informed of the award on the evening of May 17, said, “It’s very encouraging that a film planned and produced in Chiba has been recognized internationally.”
[Takashi Ishizuka]
