In the largest cinema at the Venice film festival, guests gather for the premiere of Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro's lavish account of a man who dared to play God and created a monster. When the young scientist reanimates a dead body for his colleagues, some see it as a trick while others are outraged. "It's an abomination, an obscenity," shouts one hide-bound old timer, and his alarm is partly justified. Every technological breakthrough opens Pandora's box. You don't know what's going to crawl out or where it will then choose to go.

Since the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, there have been hundreds of films, TV series and comic books featuring some iteration of the famous character. The latest adaptation sees Inside Llewyn Davis star Oscar Isaac take on the role of Victor Frankenstein, with Saltburn and Euphoria actor Jacob Elordi unrecognisable as the monster-like creature he gives life to. Isaac recalls: "Guillermo said, 'I'm creating this banquet for you, you just have to show up and eat'. And that was the truth, there was a fusion, I just hooked myself into Guillermo, and we flung ourselves down the well. "I can't believe I'm here right now," he adds, "that we got to this place from two years ago.

All human beings--even famous movie directors like Federico Fellini--have a finite lifespan. But can their talent live on (and continue to create) with artificial intelligence? Campari Red Diaries: Fellini ForwardCampari Red Diaries: Fellini Forward, a short film and behind-the-scenes documentary, premieres at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 7, and will be featured at the New York Film Festival before an on-demand release in select markets. While there are three humans with directorial credits--Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper for the documentary, and Maximilian Niemann on the short film--the post-human creative force on this movie is AI, masterminded by innovation production studio UNIT9. We spoke with Marc D'Souza, Production Director at UNIT9, to find out more. The question behind Campari Red Diaries: Fellini Forward is whether AI can be trained to not just imitate Fellini's oeuvre, but extend it into new and original work.