Talk & Seminar

Name: Asian Premiere Screening of “Imperia,” an AI-generated film - SSFF & ASIA 2025 Autumn
Start: 2025-10-23T17:00
Location: TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC ART MUSEUM

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Asian Premiere Screening of “Imperia,” an AI-generated film

25.10.23[ Thu ] 17:00-17:50

In-person
Not online

2025.10.02

On Sunday, October 26, at the Akasaka Intercity Conference venue, an international conference titled “The Future of AI & Filmmaking: Exploring Creativity, Collaboration, and Ethics” will be held. As part of the program, the latest AI short film “Imperia” by director Marcel Barsotti, one of the panelists, will have its Asian premiere. Director Barsotti and co-writer Gundula Barsotti-Bast will also make a stage greeting.

“Imperia”
When mysterious cubes appear on Earth and people disappear without a trace, the brilliant scientist Lilly Rose discovers a shocking truth: an ancient alien civilisation is using humanity for a sinister ritual. But as Lilly delves deeper into the mystery, she realises that she herself could be the key to their salvation or their downfall.

36 minutes/ Germany/ SF/ 2025

Guests

Marcel Barsotti

[Profile]
In 2024, Marcel Barsotti made his debut as a film director with ‘TRANSFORMATION’, a dystopian, elaborately AI-generated science fiction short film that received 12 international awards and 37 nominations, also the ‘Valuable Rating’ in Germany. With IMPERIA Barsotti realized his second big AI Science Fiction project, together with BAI Pictures and Schmerbeck Entertainment, which received just the ‘Honorary Tribute Film Award’ at the International Peace Festival in Toronto and starts worldwide on international festivals in Tokyo, Rome, Toronto, Utah, Munich, Paris and many more. Barsotti is also an international film composer from more than 100 international motion picture projects, like ‘Pope Joan’, ‘The Sea Wolf’ or ‘The Miracle of Bern’ and received more than 50 international awards for his film scores, and music videos. Also he composed many commercials and corporates for tv and streamers, among Sky, Concorde or RTL2, Barsotti is lecturing on universities in Europe, realized orchestral concerts with his film scores worldwide, he is CEO of the International Sound Library ETHNO WORLD and the music production company TUNESFORMOVIES. Barsotti is also brand ambassador of VSL, Waldorf and UVI products.

Gundura Barsotti-Bast

[Profile]
Gundula Barsotti-Bast hat been managing the office of the chair for Educational Sciences at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. She was a member of the Munich International Choral Society as soprano for decades. She works as a consultant on the film scores of her husband Marcel Barsotti and for the publishing house BAM Music Publishing. Gundula Barsotti-Bast was co-author on the film projects ‘Transformation’ and ‘Imperia’.