# Generation

- Date: 2022-09-22
- Type: film
- Credit: Riccardo Fusetti
- Genre: Experimental
- Artists: [Riccardo Fusetti](https://aifilmhistory.org/artist/riccardo-fusetti)
- Made with: Disco Diffusion
- Award: Grand Prix — Runway AIFF 2023 — Runway AI Film Festival 2023
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL1rs3NRgIg
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/generation-fusetti

The Grand Prix winner of [Runway's first AI Film Festival](https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/aiff-2023). In two minutes, a narrator walks through the history of life, from the big bang and the first cells to lizards, apes and people, while a dancer's body breaks apart into shifting particles and textures. Riccardo Fusetti filmed choreographer Evie Webzell, rotoscoped the whole performance, hand-animated stock footage inside her silhouette, then had Disco Diffusion repaint every frame, compositing the results back at 24 frames a second. It premiered on Short of the Week in September 2022 as the site's first AI-assisted selection, months before the festival existed.

Links:
- AIFF 2023 winners: https://aif.runwayml.com/2023
- Generation on Short of the Week: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2022/09/22/generation/
- Making of, on Directors Notes: https://directorsnotes.com/2022/10/07/riccardo-fusetti-generation/

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/generation-fusetti
Era: 2022 · The Dawn
Last updated: 2026-10-19