Eliza
McNitt
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company
Chromista
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position
Director
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website
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when
Tuesday 7 Oct 10:50
about the speaker
McNitt is a writer and director. A pioneer of fusing storytelling and emerging technology, she is an Emmy Awards Finalist and recipient of the VR Grand Prize at The Venice Film Festival. From astronauts to astrophysics, McNitt explores the cosmic collision of science and art. She is the creator of SPHERES, a VR journey through the hidden songs of the Universe, Executive Produced by Darren Aronofsky and starring Millie Bobby Brown, Jessica Chastain, and Patti Smith. SPHERES made history as the first VR acquisition out of Sundance.
Her latest short film, ANCESTRA, is a groundbreaking collaboration with Darren Aronofsky’s newest venture Primordial Soup and Google DeepMind — combining live-action and generative AI to tell a story of an expectant mother who draws on the strength of all that came before—past matriarchs to dying stars—to transform her love into a cosmic force to save her daughter’s life. McNitt’s work has appeared at Sundance, SXSW, AFI Fest, Cannes, CPH:DOX, Tribeca, Telluride, and Venice.
when
at ciclope
A new language is emerging in filmmaking – one where directors don’t just block scenes and choose lenses, but compose with words that sculpt images.
In this roundtable, Eliza McNitt (Chromista) and John Soat (Google Creative Lab), the creators of ANCESTRA – a generative short film that was produced in collaboration with Google DeepMind and Creative Lab – open up a deeply personal conversation about how poetic language became the creative foundation of their process.