Had a story in my head. Now it’s a film. 🎬
Made my first AI short film, The Watcher, using @flickarthq, and what an experience!
The fact that we can go from imagining a scene to actually watching it unfold is still crazy to me.
Here’s how it turned out!
Footage from 1930s when Britishers were beating Indians during Freedom Struggle.
P.S No parallel is to be drawn between this footage and what transpired today at Jantar Mantar.🙏
“No nation can be grateful at the cost of its liberty” - these are the words of Bharat Ratna Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. He made this profound statement while presenting the draft of the Indian Constitution in November 1949. The nation's values of freedom and expression must never be jeopardized for the sake of blind devotion to a leader or to indulge their eccentric behavior.
This statement needs to be reiterated today because the duo of Modi and Shah harbors an extreme authoritarian mindset. Leveraging this authoritarianism, they captured the country's institutions to seize power. Power that is now being wielded solely to serve the interests of a handful of industrialists. If protesters are to be crushed and arrested simply for opposing this arrogant abuse of power or demonstrating against it, then this unchecked tyranny must be uprooted from the country, from the grassroots to the highest levels.
Are protests forbidden in this country? Are questions not to be asked? Who are you to snatch away the right to protest? Protests have been ongoing in Delhi since October 3rd, demanding the resignation of the corrupt Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar. Using the Delhi Police as an instrument, the government not only crushed protesters but also harassed the female journalists covering the agitation.
Fearing protests in Delhi today, you have shut down metro services, blocked roads, suspended internet and bus services, and are even detaining protesters directly from flights. What kind of approach is this? Young men and women in their twenties and thirties across the country are restless; they cannot see a future for themselves. That is why they are taking to the streets to protest peacefully, and you are trying to crush them? With what face will Modi go around the world claiming that our country is democratic? Is this democracy?
I don’t understand this immense love for Gyanesh Kumar. Is it because Gyanesh Kumar, and the election officials before him, are your instruments for seizing power? The Election Commission is an autonomous body. What’s wrong in demanding the resignation of its chief if he has messed up things? What’s wrong with wanting an honest and transparent electoral system? My right to vote is being taken away, I am unable to track where and to whom my vote is going. Don’t I have the right to express my anger when my vote is getting insulted this way? Or is it that the two leaders at the top fear that if Gyanesh Kumar is forced to resign and reveals the masterminds behind the vote theft, the entire charade of their power will be exposed?
Under Articles 19(1)(a) and (b) of the Indian Constitution, citizens have the full right to stage peaceful protests. Why do you wish to crush this right? Just yesterday, the Honorable Supreme Court asked, "Why use a sledgehammer to swat a fly?" Typically, the police department in Maharashtra detains protesters and then releases them, ensuring that citizens' constitutional rights remain intact in the process. But in Delhi, female journalists covering the protest have complained of harassment by the police after being detained. If those covering the protest are being harassed, what guarantee is there that the protesters themselves will be treated properly?
It appears that the anger over the youth of this country forcing you to yield and compelling Dharmendra Pradhan to resign has not yet subsided. During the Anna Hazare agitation, Modi and Shah allowed protests to take place in Gujarat because it served their interests; yet, while in power in that very state, they crushed numerous protests against their own government. In short, their hypocrisy and double standards are glaringly obvious.
@johnlafizov@higgsfield Hey John, this is something i created a little while back, wrote the story myself and brought it to life using hailuo 2.0.
Would love to know what you think, cheers!
https://t.co/MOG7Fec2JA