​ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

​Important: To fully benefit from the workshop, attendance at the previous day's lecture is essential.

​This is a one-day hands-on workshop led by Geoffrey Lillemon, Amsterdam-based digital artist and creative technologist. Working directly with Hugging Face (the open repository where experimental AI models live before they become polished commercial products), participants will explore how AI can transform the mood, atmosphere and meaning of an image, and use those transformations to build a short interactive film.

​The workshop runs in two halves. In the morning, we go into Hugging Face and get our hands dirty. Most AI image tools arrive pre-packaged in subscription interfaces that constrain what you can do and obscure how they work. Hugging Face is different: messier, more experimental, and full of models that have never been folded into a product. We will work through a curated selection (tools for relighting, shifting camera perspective, inducing motion, changing atmospheric conditions) while encouraging participants to discover their own. The guiding question throughout is cinematic rather than technical: how does a change in mood change a story? Relighting an image changes its emotional proposition. Shifting the camera angle changes its power relation.

​In the afternoon, that intuition becomes a film. Each participant assembles a 9-click film: a short, browser-based interactive piece in which every click reveals a new scene. The software will be provided. Scenes may be still or moving, generated or found, but each will have passed through at least one Hugging Face model. Loosely inspired by the Kuleshov effect (the idea that cinematic meaning emerges from juxtaposition), the work is ultimately about something simpler and more open: what happens when you tell a story with images that have been remade.

​WHO IT IS FOR

​Filmmakers, moving image artists, and creative practitioners curious about experimental AI tools beyond polished commercial interfaces. No prior experience with Hugging Face required; basic comfort with film language is helpful.

​WHAT TO BRING

​Participants are required to bring their own laptop.

​We ask all workshop participants to join [Geoffrey's artist lecture] the evening before. This way we all have a shared understanding before starting and can make the most of our time together.

​PRACTICALITIES

​📍 Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam
🗓 20th June 2026
⏰ Full day workshop (10:00 to 17:00, with lunch break)
💰 Free attendance
🎫 RSVP required
💺 Limited seats available, allocated by selection. RSVP here to sign up; selected participants will be notified by email 1 week before the workshop, remaining spots will be filled on a rolling basis.

​If you have any accessibility needs, please don't hesitate to reach out so we can discuss how to best accommodate them.

​ABOUT GEOFFREY

​Geoffrey Lillemon is an Amsterdam-based digital artist and creative technologist with over two decades of practice at the intersection of CGI, media art, visual effects and emerging technology. He has exhibited at the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Tate Modern (London) and the Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), and co-founded the Department of New Realities at Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam. His work, spanning fine art, commercial direction, performance and real-time autonomous systems, is defined by an ongoing dialogue between classical artistic sensibility and radical technological experimentation.

​Learn more about Geoffrey and his work on his website, Oculart, or Instagram.

​ABOUT AI GREENHOUSE

​AI Greenhouse is a two-year collaboration between the Netherlands Film Academy and AIxDESIGN to research and cultivate (more) responsible approaches to AI in filmmaking and film education.

​Led by artist-researchers Nadia Piet and Pablo Núñez Palma, AI Greenhouse organizes public event programmes, runs artistic experiments, and compiles towards a Creative’s AI Literacy Cookbook — a set of experimental pedagogy practices to contribute to the ethical, sustainable and community-driven integration of AI in filmmaking.

​ABOUT NETHERLANDS FILM ACADEMY

​The Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) is part of the Amsterdam University of the Arts, and the only film school in The Netherlands that trains emerging filmmakers in all subdisciplines: directing, screenwriting, cinematography, editing, sound, production design, visual effects, and interactive media. Based in Amsterdam, it offers hands-on, collaborative education with state-of-the-art facilities and strong industry partnerships.

​ABOUT AIxDESIGN

​AIxDESIGN (AIxD) is an independent organization conducting critical and creative research on AI. We challenge mainstream tech narratives by making space for the rest of us — centering intersectional, inclusive, and ethical approaches through community-led projects. Learn more at aixdesign.co.