About the Film
Riverrun (fascistchicfascistquick) is an experiment in literary satire through generative cinema. The script was developed by prompting ChatGPT to rewrite the opening of Finnegans Wake as a critique of American politics, sports, and media, using multiple languages.
The work was written in the same context window as the Republicans in Love project, so the language model was also drawing on prior conversations from the development of that parodic text-to-image generation project. The generated text was edited as a long poem, narrated with an ElevenLabs clone of James Joyce's voice, and visualized through text-to-video prompts in Runway.