Where design meets story
summary
A documentary becomes a system: a proprietary generative video platform assembles roughly 500 hours of archive plus newly filmed material into ~85‑minute outputs where the opening and closing are fixed but about 70% variable, yielding billions of potential versions. The code is human‑written rather than a model trained on other films, editors craft modular scenes and the runtime generates transitions and orderings so each screening is different yet coherent; development continues through multiple software generations.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:44Why design
- 3:55Finding Helvetica
- 6:10Storytelling with design
- 8:50Inspiration from design legends
- 11:01Authenticity
- 13:00Eno
- 17:38Continuity
- 18:33Dynamic transitions
- 19:26AI models
- 23:27The Lumiere Brothers
- 24:27Finding inspiration
- 25:59Future plans
- 26:55Lightning Round
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