When was the last time you directed a film inspired by your impressionist-style paintings that premiered at Sundance Film Festival?
Yeah, me neither. But somehow, Kristen Stewart has become actual #productivitygoals by doing all of the above and co-writing an academic paper on a complicated aspect of the filmmaking process to go alongside it.
*Come Swim *is the Twilight actress’ directorial and screenwriting debut, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in Utah last night. Watch the trailer below.
The short film is described as a ‘poetic, impressionistic portrait of a heartbroken man underwater’, and is based on Kristen’s paintings and poetry about the thoughts people have in the first moments of waking (when they're still half-asleep, basically).
Working with a producer and research engineer, Kristen reproduced the original effect of her paintings by using an editing technique called ‘neural style transfer’, which artistically redraws an original image to look like another using artificial intelligence technology.
You can read the three-page document that was published a day ahead of the film's release here, where it goes into great detail about the technique that has made film boffins eat their words about an often-mocked film franchise:
And then:
Boom:
Keep slaying, K-Stew.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.