The Grand Rex, a place that has become the meeting place for stars of the seventh art that has welcomed icons such as Margot Robbie, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and, just a few days ago, Pedro Pascal, did not yet know that another star was going to be added to its famous ceiling.
Last Thursday it wasn’t even 6 pm. when a crowd was already milling around waiting for the doors to open. It must be said that, in a few dozen minutes, an event will change lives. The projection of The future 2320HE first film made entirely by artificial intelligence. A feat that we owe Philippe Shangti. The French artist is the star of the evening. The crowd was finally there for a session of Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard And Soft Tour. Too bad for her.
Jesus of Nazareth and Philip of Toulouse
For my part, at that moment I still didn’t know what I was going to see. The rows of the Infinite room fill up little by little before the session with beautiful people dressed to the nines, although a safety distance of 7 seats seems to have been tacitly planned with the small population. And suddenly darkness invades space and The real androids arrive on stage.come from the future (the year 2320 no doubt) to perform dance steps in a AI clip covering Michael Jackson. I wasn’t at the end of my surprises.
There are events that change a life. For me there were three. My marriage. The birth of my son. Philippe Shangti. Of the the presentation video of the gentleman, before his arrival and after the premiere of said film, I realize how lucky I am. The clip from LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, presents us with a man of uncommon humility. The intersection between Gandhi and Jesus Christ, the eighth wonder of the world. As he says on his Instagram profile, it is an icon and he’s certainly not the type of person to make a story about lining up for Billie Eilish while implying that it’s for him.
Then, in a religious silence, the room awaits the words of the thirteenth apostle, even more so, of the new Messiah. Take a step forward. This is my body, he said, presenting his project to us. Yes, AI is not an enemy, it can also transmit divine speech.
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In the name of the Father, the Son and the Shangti
The film is reminiscent of a certain Orson Welles, who co-writes, directs, produces and films in oblivion. Citizen Kane. Here is Shangti. a name visible at least three times on the official poster with, obviously, the image of the man in the foreground. An image made by artificial intelligence. Evil tongues might say that there is a muscle mass gap between reality and fiction. Jealous people.
Two hours is what it takes The future 2320. Two minutes is the time it takes for unconscious people to suppress their first laughs.. However, everything is clear in this story that leads Philippe Shangti’s copy, lacking inspiration for his next exhibition dedicated to the future, to travel towards said future to bring back the fruit of his hard work. Just watch this five-minute sequence of a population happy to receive the golden ticket, even in the middle of vanilla ice cream, to be convinced of the importance of our hero in the world.
The minutes pass by admiring faces, stars in their eyes, colleagues who are really very, very happy to work with Philippe, because he constantly inspires them and pushes them to give their best. And if AI itself sometimes seems to take control When asked to emphasize that the Messiah needs her, she knows where she stands.
Thus, place, at least once per scene, the name of Shangti in the mouth of an admirer or on the screen. Especially since the moral of the story gives us a life lesson: faking art is bad, but putting it in the hands of AI is good. So yes, the shadow may look fine, but only if you are not Philippe Shangti.
We regularly see small videos made by AI on the networks, sometimes misleading, we must admit, not to praise the performance of seeing what we are capable of doing over a much longer period of time. Of course, this certainly requires sacrifices, choices and yes, the future can do without facial expressions, image coherence, symmetry, texture, life, realism, movement, plot and so many other basic elements..
Because, ultimately, what is important? Having something beautiful, observable, that responds to elementary logic, or knowing that a Frenchman has managed to transform a solitary pleasure by looking in the mirror under The way the world’s first artificial intelligence movie is a little sexist?
PS: To stay within the irony of the article, we will not talk about the “3D” sequence that reminded us of the heyday of Picsou magazine with our red and blue lens glasses.
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