"Er Loop": Plato’s myth as a dark comedy
Marco Magario’s most ambitious AI short retells Plato’s Myth of Er as a dark comedy. He wrote, directed, produced and scored it. The cut runs just under twenty minutes.
Plato's Myth of Er is a soldier who dies, watches souls choose their next lives, and is sent back to tell the living. Marco Magario's "Er Loop" plays that story as a dark comedy, and calls it his most ambitious AI short.
He wrote it, directed it, produced it and scored it. The cut runs just under twenty minutes. A joke that long has to be directed: who the bit is about, when it repeats, when it stops being funny and becomes the point.
The post leads with the title and the author. The models stay off the marquee. For a film this length, that is the honest order.
Marco Magario
@MarcoMagarioAI
Er Loop | My most ambitious AI short film. My take on Plato's Myth of Er, as a dark comedy. Written, directed, produced and scored entirely by me. https://t.co/BDN2xAbjHx
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