Where exactly has director Bennett Miller been all these years? Supposedly, he’s gone down the rabbit and been obsessed with the advent of A.I. technology. I don’t blame him, it’s an endlessly fascinating topic.
The filmmaker has just opened his first exhibition at Gagosian, his works are composed of new black-and-white pigment prints that have been algorithmically generated by A.I.
It also turns out that Miller has been spending these past five years developing a documentary on “how technology has altered our realities in ways we know and more terrifyingly, don’t yet know”. The upcoming film essentially examines the costs and benefits of the technology
Miller tells Artnet:
“The emergence of A.I. has brought us to the precipice of imagination-defying transformations and there do not seem to be any adults in the room. The documentary was meant to be a means to hit pause and reflect on this extraordinary moment.”
One of the people Miller interviewed for the doc was Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI. That’s the same company Miller used to create his artwork. The photos are quite stunning, actually.
Miller has directed three fiction films in his strange, but fascinating filmmaking career: 2005’s “Capote,” 2011’s “Moneyball” and 2014’s “Foxcatcher.” All three were critically-acclaimed. The late Philip Seymour Hoffman won the Best Actor Oscar for his work in “Capote.”
It’ll be almost ten years since “Foxcatcher” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. There is no indication that Miller will be going back feature filmmaking anytime soon, but we are very much looking forward to this doc — whenever it shows up.