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(this is a small excerpt of a much longer piece i'm writing about Look Back,and ai 'art' projects in general <3)
Look back is a movie not even an hour long. Look back is a movie with scratchy lines, unfinished sketches and, at times, wonky perspectives. Look back is a movie where not every scene may be very detailed. Look back is a movie drawn with animation from human hands. Beginning the movie is an anime-original scene of the camera panning down from the sky into Fujino’s window. This shot is entirely hand drawn, and it’s visible. With slight perspective inconsistencies, subtly clunky movement and an objectively far from perfect animation.
'But should it be perfect?'
Swamp Jawn- "Because the physical act of the human hand drawing lines on a page, no matter how tedious and imperfect, is the entire point of the movie." Look back is a work, in the age of cgi, ai and other digital tools which shows us the story of a young girl’s dream of art and the loss and re-ignition of her passion along the way. The hardships she overcomes and lessons she learns, while telling it through Fujimoto’s unique story style and sensational animation that shows us the beauty of human imperfections.
“For example, you could always have AI draw such lines as part of a design, but it would just be like a bit of fashion. It would have no meaning.”- Kiyotaka Oshiyama
Every thought, every little decision, every stroke made by a person puts a little piece of that person onto the screen and, whether consciously or subconsciously, that connects with us as the audience on a human level. Tatsuki Fujimoto is an incredible writer, whose works often feel real, deeply personal and unflinchingly honest. He explores human themes such as grief, being taken advantage of, young people's struggles, saying goodbye, and finding a place to belong. The day artificial intelligence can replicate these traits is the day humans are no longer needed in creative fields of any kind. Making music that helps people, connects with them, ignites a new feeling within them. Writing a book so beautifully raw and honest, clutching at heart strings and pulling on personal, human experiences. Creating fashion that helps someone express themselves in that special way and make them feel truly beautiful. Performing in a way so painfully realistic that you start to double guess if what you are watching is rehearsed, or purely someone spewing out their deepest emotions in that moment. Skills that would otherwise have taken even a whole lifetime to grow and carefully nurture to be mimicked and generated from an ai. Those very same ai’s that copy and steal and use other real, existing people’s gorgeous works.
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