{"id":271934,"date":"2026-06-13T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/the-violence-in-iran-was-real-the-film-showing-it-was-a-i\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T05:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:50:11","slug":"the-violence-in-iran-was-real-the-film-showing-it-was-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/the-violence-in-iran-was-real-the-film-showing-it-was-a-i\/","title":{"rendered":"The Violence in Iran Was Real. The Film Showing It Was A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Violence in Iran Was Real. The Film Showing It Was A.I.<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/13\/movies\/ai-tribeca-dreams-violets-iran.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-13 05:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Ash Koosha was in London, not Tehran, when the internet went dark in the Iranian capital during a deadly government crackdown against protesters in January. Some video clips and photographic evidence did eventually trickle out.<\/p>\n

But Koosha, who was born in Iran, understood that the true extent of the suffering might never be fully known.<\/p>\n

So with his brother, Pooya Koosha, he got to work on \u201cDreams of Violets,\u201d a 75-minute docudrama in which every image was made by generative artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

On the screen, officers unload their weapons, fires explode on the streets, and a child watches the chaos breathlessly. But the filmmaking was done from inside a London apartment. There were no actors, no sets, no cameras.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeed matters here, right?\u201d said Koosha, a first-time filmmaker who left Iran in 2009. \u201cJournalists are scrambling to verify things. Humanitarian organizations are scrambling and artists are scrambling. They\u2019re trying to tell the story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Koosha\u2019s movie is a memorial, he says, in a moment when journalism was not possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cDreams of Violets\u201d had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival in Manhattan this week, making it the first full-length, live-action film completely generated by A.I. to be accepted by a major film festival, according to Fountain 0, the studio behind it. Koosha wrote the script and designed <\/strong>the A.I.-powered production pipeline to bring it alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s using what he knows, the technology he has, as his paintbrush, as his keyboard, as his way to express himself,\u201d said Jane Rosenthal, a leading Hollywood producer and Tribeca co-founder who helped bring an A.I.-enhanced version of \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d to Sphere in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis movie would not exist without this technology,\u201d she added. \u201cYou\u2019re not replacing anything or anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rosenthal is among the Hollywood power players who are embracing what they see as the inevitable rise of A.I. in film and television.<\/p>\n

\u201cPandora\u2019s out of the box,\u201d she said….<\/p>\n

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