Filmmaker Statement

Lillian is my grandmother. She is 98 and I love talking to her about books and movies. Over the past couple of years, I started recording some of these conversations. Recently, two things happened: Lillian finished reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and I became fascinated by AI image generators. I saw an opportunity for a unique sort of project. The goal was to take a beloved, iconic story known the world over and put it in the hands of possibly the only two collaborators with the ability to spin it into something new. We wanted our visuals to be infused with the same unexpected interpretive qualities found in Lillian’s book review. So we sent her creative recap of this familiar story through a funhouse hall of mirrors by inputting her prompts into an AI image generator with very little added context. The result is as strange and delightful as anything in the wizarding world 🪄⚡️