HAIRY POUTER
2022 · 2m · USA
Directed by Chris Carboni
Genres: documentary, experimental
Tones: humorous, tender, whimsical
A 98-year-old reader's charming misrememberings of Harry Potter are paired with AI-generated imagery.
Picked by Margot
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98-year-old's misremembered Harry Potter recounting matched to AI-generated images — actually a clever use of the technology, the misremembering doing the heavy lifting. Two and a half minutes earned.
Carboni filming a 98-year-old's misrememberings of Harry Potter as AI-generated imagery is the precise inversion of the AI-art-as-replacement panic — using the technology to amplify human idiosyncrasy rather than flatten it. A genuinely smart conceptual gesture.
2:27 from Reunion (Chris Carboni) where 98-year-old Lillian's verbal misrememberings are interpreted by AI image generation — that's an AI-art conceit deployed with actual subject specificity rather than as a gimmick. Webby-nominated, 99.9K views.