Relentless Melt No. 37: Experimental Animation with GenAI

Relentless Melt presents a screening of new short films and music videos made in Max Hattler’s Abstract and Experimental Animation classes at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Around half of the films are music videos which deploy generative AI models like Midjourney and Kling in the service of abstract experimentation, for music artists including Muta, Isan, and Julien Mier. The other half are optical sound-based one-minute films of photographic abstraction. Screening curated and introduced by Max Hattler. Relentless Melt is a Hong Kong-based society for the production, dissemination and appreciation of abstract and experimental moving image. It holds regular screenings in Hong Kong and internationally. This project was supported by the Teaching Development Grants ‘Abstract Animation with Generative AI’ (6000889) and ‘Experimental Animation with Optical Sound’ (6000859).