It was held on 10 and 11 October, at the IULM in Milan, the second edition of AI. Motion, the Italian film and audiovisual festival created with artificial intelligence.
The jury, composed by Andrea Gatopoulos, Chiara Canali, Alice Barale, Francesco D’Isa and Sergio Sozzo, awarded the awards to the works that best explored the creative, expressive and conceptual potential of AI, while Rai Cinema Channel and the magazine Prompt Magazine have announced the winners of their special awards.
The prize as the best short movie goes to Marc Richter’s Hugs & Kisses, because “if the AI makes us feel more ‘creators’ – in the cosmogonic sense – than ‘creatives’, it is very interesting to observe the ‘creatures’ – the way they seem to be divinculating to kiss, hug, copulate, drown in some way to life. In a humanoid and golem almanac, Hugs & Kisses works a bit like a gallery, a bizarre freak-show AI. According to us of the jury closer to an exhibition-video path and assimilation in loops than to a linear vision of cinema but undoubtedly a work that could be born only within the AI generation”.
Reflections in Neon by Krzysztof Pila wins the prize as best music video. This work can be described as a visual journey that reworks dream and surreal scenarios in a digital key. The jury observed that “if Bosch or Dalì had directed a videoclip of the 1990s, but only fragments, reflections of that work, scattered shreds, frames distorted by time had come to us. How can I put them back together? It is, probably, the invitation of Reflections in Neon, which proposes fruition hypotheses that generate new meaning, depending on whether we read them vertically, horizontally, dialoguing between the screens, putting us transverse”.
The prize as best adv if it wins, then, Fran Gas’s BASS “for the ability to use artificial intelligence as an expressive means to explore otherwise unreachable styles and scenarios, putting in an ironic stage the transformations (but not disappearances) of the author (what we become in our creative and artistic make?), and creating surreal atmospheres and costumes of great inventiveness, and for the wise rhythm and coordination between image. A first unrealizable spot – or at least very expensive – becomes accessible thanks to the exploration of a new creative medium.”.
Rai Cinema Channel delivers his prize at Purgatorio di Flavio Papa “for the expressive force of images and the aesthetic sensitivity that make each frame an intense and immersive experience”.
Finally, at TECH-BRO VOMIT IN HD by Boris Eldagsen goes the Prompt Magazine Award, a work that “reflects strongly on timely culture, glossy aesthetics and artificial optimism of today’s creative industry, a metacritical act in which AI becomes a tool of criticism against itself.”.
The article Announced the winners of AI. Motion 2025 comes from SentieriSelvaggi.
