About a Hero
Piotr Winniewicz Denmark, Germany, United States 2024 85 min.
“Not in another 4,500 years will a computer create a film as good as one of mine,” claimed famous filmmaker Werner Herzog eight years ago. Filmmaker Piotr Winiewicz - with Herzog's permission - took up the challenge. He used Herzog's oeuvre as input for an AI system and commissioned it to write a screenplay. The result is an experimental film that - surprisingly - became the opening film of the renowned documentary festival IDFA.
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About a Hero is not a documentary in the classic sense, but rather the disruptive final result of a special AI experiment revolving around the work of Werner Herzog. The film not only tells a bizarre story with echoes of Herzog's work, but also raises critical questions about 'authenticity' and how we perceive reality, with contributions from writer Stephen Fry, among others. An alienating, thought-provoking film that explores the still fairly unexplored cross-pollination between film and artificial intelligence.
Credits
Director
Piotr Winniewicz
Producer
Rikke Tambo Andersen, Mads Damsbo, Sam Pressman
Cinematography
Emil Aagaard
Editing
Julius Krebs Damsbo, Michael Aagelund
Music
Lasse Aagaard
Sound
Peter Storm
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Dialogues
English, German
Subtitling
English