Dreams of Violets’ Ash Koosha Made AI Movie for $2,000
Breaking Down ‘Dreams of Violets,’ the First AI-Generated Feature Film to Screen at Tribeca
Dreams of Violets is dreaming of a brighter future for independent filmmakers.
The 75-minute drama—centered on a group of strangers whose lives are changed forever by the January massacre of Iranian civilians in Tehran—is the first feature-length movie completely generated by AI to screen at a major film festival.
Premiering at the Tribeca Festival on June 10, the film was made by Ash Koosha—who was born in Iran and left the country in 2009—for $2,000 and, as he put it, “a lot of human dedication.”
“The first month was basically writing down ideas, researching, capturing a lot of the footage required to recreate the events,” Koosha explained in an exclusive interview with E! News. “From the moment we generated the images and it went to the video processing and the post-production, that was two months of work and mainly happened at night, in my breaks outside of my main job.”