Italian producer Andrea Iervolino, whose credits include Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” is launching a new AI label and has announced production of “The Sweet Idleness” which he touts as “the first film directed by a virtual director.”
The film is “conceived to celebrate the poetic and dreamlike language of great European cinema” and directed “by an AI agent” called “FellinAI,” according to a statement.
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“The Sweet Idleness” depicts “a tomorrow in which only 1% of humanity still works, transforming labor into a symbolic ritual, while the rest of the population lives in the freedom and leisure provided by machines,” the provided synopsis says.
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