Only the voices are real in Edgar Pêra’s movie, which arrived on Thursday on the big screen. THEThe images that make up the film were fully made using artificial intelligence applications.
Premiered this Thursday in the Portuguese theaters “Telepathic letters” of the director Edgar Pêrawhich makes an exchange of correspondence between Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) and the American writer HP Lovecraft (1890-1937), Two of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.
The film puts the two authors to exchange ideas about cosmos and the fantastic, art and morality. The bridge between the two authors, on which Edgar Pêra says he has found contact points, since he started reading them in his teens, was made using applications of Artificial intelligence of moving image creation, which allowed to write, film and assemble the feature film practically in real time.
“Many of the images that are there in the movie, which have an aesthetics from the 1960s or 1980s, can no longer do them, because it was from this ‘beta’ period when the creation of moving image was still very at the beginning. All strange and eccentric elements was what interested me the most,” Edgar Pêra told Lusa at the film’s festival in Switzerland last year.
Only the voices are real in this movie (narrated by Keith Esher Davis, Iris Cayatte, Barbara Lagido and Victoria Guerra). Everything else results from an assembly of action commands indicated by Edgar Pêra, who generated multiple images in motion, scenarios, landscapes, some grotesque, bizarre, disform, hypotheses of animated images of Fernando Pessoa and Lovecraft.
“I love things when they are at the beginning. When the 3D appeared, I wanted to try it and tried small -shaped cameras. [escritor] Aldous Huxley said that books are the toys of consciousness and I think the movie are too. […] I was totally dazzled by being able to create images from text, ”said Pêra.
According to the director, “telepathic letters”, produced by a separate band, can be understood as a kind of prequel to the movie “I’m Nothing – The Nothingness Club”, which is focused on person heterons, and an upcoming project inspired by lovecraft tales.
