MEXICO CITY (appro).– Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro asked creators not to be afraid of artificial intelligence, and warned against stupidity, which is natural.
“When people say that they are afraid of artificial intelligence, I tell them that they should not be afraid of any intelligence, they should be afraid of stupidity. Every intelligence is artificial, stupidity is natural. Completely, one hundred percent natural, organic,” she said.
Guillermo del Toro delivered that message during a master class given to students at the Annecy Animation Festival in France.
There, when highlighting the difficulties that cinema faces in today’s world, Del Toro rejected that the new technological tools are the real challenge for creators.
Rather, he pointed to the traditional obstacles that complicate the realization of new audiovisual works.
Guillermo del Toro confessed that, despite having won three Oscars, studios have recently rejected five of his projects.
“Studies keep telling me no. In the last two months, five of my projects have been turned down. So don’t give up,” he told the young people present.
“Making movies is eating a shitty sandwich. There’s always shit, but sometimes you have a little more bread. Have faith in the stories you want to tell and wait until someone else wants to buy them,” she stated.
He seeks to dedicate himself only to animation
When talking about his future projects, the Mexican filmmaker said that he wants to dedicate himself completely to animation.
“There are a couple of ‘live action’ movies I want to do, but no more. After that I just want to do animation. That is the plan, ”he stated, according to various international media.
And he described the reason for his predilection for animation: “I think you can make a fantasy adult drama with stop-motion and move people. I think stop-motion animation can be intravenous, it can go straight to your emotions in a way that no other medium can,” he added.
He considered that the craftsmanship of an animation project makes it easy to capture the imperfect nature of the worlds created and reflect our own.
“I hate perfection. I love things that look handmade. That’s why I put physical sets on them. I try to avoid sets and digital effects as much as possible. I love the physical aspect of animation. Stop-motion is cinema made by hand, carved by hand. If you need a chair in a stop-motion movie you have to make it. If you need a flower, you have to make it,” she explained.
During the class at the festival, which has Mexico as its special guest, he recalled that he started doing animation at the age of 8 with his father’s Super 8 camera, but opportunities and projects such as “La hora marcada” came very early. ” and “Chronos” (1992).
“Life had other plans and I didn’t return to animation until I started working with Dreamworks overseeing movies like ‘Puss in Boots’ and ‘Rise of the Guardians,’” he recalled.
Del Toro is currently producing “The buried giant”, an animated film for Netflix, inspired by the work of the British writer of Japanese origin Kazuo Ishiguro, and another adaptation of Frankenstein, in which Oscar Isaac will act.
