SPEAKERS
Wednesday 25th Jan 2023
1pm LA - 4pm NYC - 9pm LON - 10pm PARIS - 8am AUS
Speaker #1
Lauren Indovina
DIRECTOR/DESIGNER/SCREENWRITER
We challenged the prolific creator and intrepid intellect, Lauren Indovina, who recently partnered with Partizan and director Pete Candeland on an animation series, to kick off the Amuse Bouche series. Lauren set her own terms to engage in a creative process that she was eager to tackle.
Lauren set out on a 5 day experiment using AI and Unreal to create a film noir surreal narrative. By imposing certain constraints of time and her own capacity to create all assets, she desired to learn new tools and bend them to her voice. In the short space of a few days, Lauren yielded dynamic creative development and a rich body of material. In the spirit of education, inspiration, and being unafraid to fail, she is preparing these materials for a show & tell. The originating brief and aspiration has morphed into a more extended deep dive exploring the utility of AI as an artist tool blending hand drawn assets and intellectual prompts with more desired intention. The process and products illuminate compelling value in the developing technology and also reiterates the importance and irreplaceable value of an Artist’s vision, voice, and intent at the helm.
Lauren’s show and tell will kick off our internally facing experiment.
We invite you to join us on this journey...
Speaker #2
Warren Fu
DIRECTOR
Warren Fu is an acclaimed director in the short form space, having directed countless music videos and commercials featuring the most respected talents in the industry. Early in his career, his creative impulses led him to a position as an art director at Lucasfilm, where he worked directly under George Lucas in creating prominent characters and designs for the Star Wars Prequels, as well as contributions to A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, Star Trek, Pirates of the Caribbean and Terminator Salvation.
Warren has fostered enduring relationships with visionary artists such as Daft Punk, The Strokes, Haim, The Weeknd and Karen O, developing some of their most iconic pieces of album art, logos, visuals and stage designs. Highlights of Warren’s directing work include: Dua Lipa’s “Levitating”, Daft Punk’s Grammy-Award winning Random Access Memories, A Tribe Called Quest’s politically charged swan song “The Space Program”, and the irreverent video for Doja Cat and SZA’s “Kiss Me More,”.
Long-form storytelling to come...
Daft Punk Feat. Julian Casablancas & the Voidz
The Strokes
Daft Punk
Spotify
Doja Cat & SZA
Speaker #3
Michael Gracey
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
Since getting his start as the youngest animator and VFX artist at Animal Logic, Michael Gracey has built a career combining cutting edge developments in filmmaking with a singular amount of heart. He has the ability to move seamlessly between a diverse array of visual styles while bringing a clear and distinctive vision to each.
His Oscar-nominated first film, The Greatest Showman, has become one of the highest grossing live-action musicals of all time. Michael has also directed numerous acclaimed commercials and content for some of the world’s most iconic music artists. He is currently in post on his next film, Better Man, inspired by the life of singer/songwriter, Robbie Williams.