AI Hybrid Filmmaking: "Dublin Vampire Chronicle" Screening & Discussion
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Hi everyone,
Our next meetup is on Saturday 14 November at the IFI Café, 2pm.
This time I’m showing my new AI hybrid short film, Dublin Vampire Chronicle: See You at the Church.
"Starving and banned from Dublin city, a vampire sneaks back to hunt, and finds the only sober man in the street: a young missionary who wants to save his soul."
What makes it “hybrid”?
I went out to Temple Bar on a Saturday night and recorded the photos and audio myself. Then I built the film from that material using AI tools.
The workflow:
- Capture: Fujifilm X-H2S for stills, TASCAM FR-AV4 + Sennheiser MKH 8020 for location audio
- Generation: GPT Image 2.5, Seedance 2.0 and ElevenLabs voices, run through ComfyUI and Higgsfield
- Post: DaVinci Resolve for edit and grade, REAPER for the sound mix
- Script and prompts developed with Claude
You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB3WkAy5z6c
Let’s talk about:
- Is the film industry heading toward hybrid workflows? Where does real footage end and AI begin, and does that line matter?
- Is there hostility toward AI filmmaking, and why? Jobs, consent, training data, “AI slop”. Let’s hear every side.
- Show and tell: Have you seen or made an AI project worth noticing? Bring it on your phone or laptop.
Everyone is welcome, from curious beginners to working filmmakers. Sceptics are welcome too, since they’ll make the second topic much better.