The Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800 #adg800 has issued a statement on Martin Scorsese’s recent promotion of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI):
"Mr. Scorsese, The Business is not in flux.
Oscar winning director Martin Scorsese is turning his back on the human artists who throughout his career have helped him create his most memorable works.
In the recently released Black Forest Labs video promoting their generative AI product FLUX, Mr. Scorsese asks the question, “how do you communicate what you see in your head to your cast and crew?” He claims the solution is the use of this generative AI program to do the jobs that are rightfully the jurisdiction of Art Directors Guild Local 800 artists and designers - human artists and designers who have been successfully collaborating with directors to visualize their films for decades. Mr. Scorsese's promotion of a generative AI product circumvents the input of Art Directors Guild Local 800 art directors, graphic artists, illustrators, production designers, scenic artists, set designers, and other talented Union professionals.
Generative AI is only capable of producing this type of “cinematic intelligence” by ingesting large swaths of copyrighted work, likely scraped from the internet without consent, credit, compensation, or transparency.
The skills of Art Directors Guild Local 800 artists and designers bring the highest level of value to any film or television production. To think their professional contributions can be mimicked or outshone by generative AI, which is built on work likely stolen from them and many other artists from around the world, is a betrayal of the collaborative nature of cinema."
Se dico che davanti a "Le città di pianura" mi sono addormentata prima della fine,mi linciate?È un film con un certo stile e fascino,i nostalgici degli anni '90 lo ameranno,ma il capolavoro non l' ho visto 🤷
Очень рада за «Минотавра». В отличие от жалкого пропущенного через росгосфильтр беззубого искусства в Венецианском павильоне этот фильм — актуальное российское искусство. К сожалению, изгнанное, идущее на жертвы и риски, без фигур умолчания взаимодействующее с реальностью
Our honorary leopard – the Pardo d’Onore, presented by Manor – will be given to the visionary American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky on August 14, 2026.
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Ukrainian producer and servicewoman Viktoriia Bobrova, callsign “Kvitka” (flower) has died in the war.
She worked in film before joining the military and later documented frontline life with the “Edelweiss” brigade.
“Forever young and beautiful,” her mother wrote.
Con Giorgio Gosetti, storico delegato delle @giornate, scompare un uomo che ha creduto, con coerenza rara, che il cinema e le sue molteplici sedi sono anche luoghi di pensiero e di dialogo.
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🔵 Addio a Carlo Cecchi, maestro del teatro italiano e grande interprete del cinema d'autore, indimenticabile sul palco nel dramma "Finale di partita" di Beckett. Nel 2007 gli fu assegnato il Premio Gassman come miglior attore teatrale italiano. Avrebbe compiuto 87 anni domani
Di lei importa a nessuno perché Elvira non è americana. Qualcuna/o ci ha provato a trovare un collegamento con New York, smentito regolarmente dalla totale assoluta mancanza di prove