At the end of 2024, I met a famous writer who always walks freely. Speaking of 2024, we naturally talked about the impact of AI on artistic creation. He is very calm about this: 'What should come will come.' This writer believes that as long as AI is not beyond human control, there is no need to be entangled or confused. What should come, come, accept, try. Coincidentally, during our two days of communication, I came across news that a group of film directors were also using AI to shoot movies. In the "China's First AIGC Director Co Creation Program," nine well-known directors including Li Shaohong, Jia Zhangke, Ye Jintian, Xue Xiaolu, Yu Baimei, Dong Runnian, Zhang Shiyu, Wang Zichuan, and Wang Maomao have joined hands with Keling AI to create nine AIGC short films, covering fantasy, supernatural, family, animation, and other genres. Nine experimental short films, all of which were generated using Keling AI, were presented in front of me. I had a curious and fresh feeling of watching big screen feature film directors sit together and write college entrance exam essays. How will movie directors shoot when they enter the AI game? What experience did you have? Director Jia Zhangke's 6-minute AIGC short film "Harvest Wheat" directly features robots as the main characters in the film. Director Jia, who self mocks himself for not being able to write scripts in Mandarin, also made the robots in the film speak authentic Shanxi Fenyang dialect. Wheat Harvest "is a science fiction short film that depicts the future of human life. Delicate as Director Jia, his depiction of the story between humans and robots spans across urban and rural areas in terms of narrative scope, touches on family relationships in terms of character relationships, and has a very "road movie" style in form. The story of 'Harvest of Wheat' revolves around Xiao Wang and a humanoid robot. Busy in the city, Xiao Wang communicates remotely with his parents through technology and sends robots to the countryside to help his parents harvest wheat. The robot embarked on a journey to Shanxi alone and encountered some small incidents on the way, such as seeing an elderly person in a wheelchair and a dead robot parked on the roadside, so it proactively stopped to help. Robots charge dead robots and comfort helpless elderly people; Robots help tourists take photos at scenic spots, and then ask them to take photos for themselves, leaving behind this journey experience. Finally, the robot arrived in Baibao Village, Fenyang City, Shanxi Province and found Xiao Wang's parents. The robot communicated with them fluently in Fenyang dialect and demonstrated astonishing strength in harvesting wheat. Jia Zhangke said that he himself has been following the development of AI and this is his first attempt to explore the possibility of AI in film creation. The entire short film adopts traditional narrative techniques and storyboarding methods of road movies, and uses AI to create more application scenarios. In 6 minutes, AI can achieve the transformation of multiple spaces and the continuity of characters, which is a great surprise. Director Li Shaohong, who has always focused on the power of women in her works, has brought the AIGC short film "Hana Manzhu", which is like an "Easter egg" for audiences who like her works. The story line spanning time and space reveals the impermanence of fate. The short film triggers a resonance among the audience about the plight of women through the connection of shared destinies between Xiao E in "Red Powder", Xiu He in "Orange is Red", Princess Taiping in "Great Ming Palace Lyrics", and the baby in "Love". Li Shaohong said that he has made films for more than 30 years and has gone through the era of film, digital, Internet and AI. AI has provided great imagination for the creative space of future movies, and she is honored to be one of the first directors to eat crab. Director Dong Runnian, who created "The Annual Meeting Cannot Stop!", chose to use AI to create a fantasy story that takes place in a "new world", opening up parallel spaces in another dimension for the audience. This is a genre that Dong Runnian has hardly tried in his past creative career. The novel "New World" portrays the protagonist Xiaoya's inner loneliness and fear through her travels in different worlds, and ultimately finds the strength to live bravely amidst her mother's cries. One of the values of AI's involvement in film creation is to break through human habitual and conventional cognition. Dong Runnian discovered during the creative process that every description can generate various different images for AI. The way AI presents the world based on my description is completely different from what I imagined, it has its own unique logic. This encourages me to try stories that I have imagined but haven't expressed yet This director believes that this is a collaboration with AI, a 'co creation', rather than simply using a tool. AI has arrived, and these actively trying film directors stand at the forefront to feel the impact of technology on the industry. Audiences not only see dazzling visual presentations, but also realize that technology is not cold. Movies are full of emotions, and we are deeply touched by a warm and good story. Just like the ending of Dong Runnian's short film, it implies the theme that 'love can be eternal'. In the film, Xiaoya loses her mother in the real world. In the process of independent survival and growth, she has fantasized and escaped countless times, hoping to return to the "world with a mother". However, in the end, love transcends time and space, and her mother accompanies Xiaoya in an intangible form as she grows up. No matter when or where, love can make people strong and independent. In 2025, we also hope that technology can make everyone's life better and every heart can be healed. (New Society)