Masterclass by Javier de la Chica: AI in the Aesthetics of Cinema

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
300MJCH credit 1 4 hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 22 to 27 hours of self-study English winter

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David ČENĚK

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David ČENĚK

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Date: December 4th, 2025

The venue: Reference Screening Room of Studio FAMU, Klimentska 4, 4th floor, https://www.famu.cz/en/faculty/studio-famu/

Time schedule:

14:00 hall open

14:15 -17:30 masterclass by Javier de la Chica: AI in the Aesthetics of Cinema, in English

Structured talk that is mutating. It is about synthetic video production, the narrative codes of AI, told in a chronology of the last 3 years, talking about how each new tool has been opening more and more possibilities. Javier de la Chica will make a dichotomy between tools that allowes to have control and tools that bring chaos (the benefits of both).

He will approach it from an artistic and creative point of view and not so much a technical one.

Blocks:

The lecturer will start with a general preamble on generative AI, address the controversy and give a sort of best practice guide.

The lecturer defends AI as an artistic tool for artists and defends the creative role of artists in the process (I compare AI to the musical synthesizer, not to replace the orchestra but to make electronic music).

The lecturer will start a chronology through his 5 short films that serves two purposes; on the one hand to show the progress of technology in the last 2 years, on the other hand to show different working systems.

The lecturer wilI talk about what in his opinion is the great contribution of AI, the fact of having an active tool that you can control or release as you like, and he concludes that the production process with AI is a sort of audiovisual Jam Session where the script is built and transformed into the film itself.

Javier de la Chica wilI end with some reflections on the future, urging that artists be the leaders of this cultural revolution.

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Evaluation methods and criteria

The condition for obtaining credit is 100% attendance at the masterclass, documented by signing the attendance sheet on December 4, 2025.

Note

Contact person: Andrea PETROVIČOVÁ, andrea.petrovicova@famu.cz

Further information

This course is an elective for all students of this school

Schedule for winter semester 2025/2026:

Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
04.12.2025 14:15–17:30 David ČENĚK Studio FAMU - Screening room
Klimentská ulice		 Lecturer: Javier de la Chica lecture parallel1

Schedule for summer semester 2025/2026:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans