A New Vibe in AI Cinema
Forget what you think you know about AI movies. Turkish distributor Baska Sinema just picked up the domestic theatrical rights for A Woman Asleep, an experimental film directed by artist and filmmaker Vikki Bardot. The flick is an English-language drama that explores the "numbness" and isolation we all feel in our hyper-connected, digital-first world. It’s giving main character energy, but make it glitchy and synthetic.
Behind the Tech
This isn't just some random prompt-and-pray job. The film is a passion project that took two years to create, edited down from a massive pool of 50,000 individual shots. The narration is a total trip too—the voice is an AI clone trained specifically on Bardot’s own voice, which she says creates a space "between the human and the synthetic."
If the title sounds familiar, the movie takes inspiration from the 1974 French cult classic The Man Who Sleeps. The whole thing is produced by Spongeworthy, a Turkish studio that clearly has a thing for buzzy, tech-forward projects.
Why it matters
Bardot, who was doing AI art way before it was a viral trend, says the real flex isn't using AI to mimic big-budget Hollywood movies. Instead, she’s using it to give independent creators the freedom to make ambitious, personal art that might usually struggle to get a budget. As Baska Sinema director Armagan Lale put it, the focus is on how these tools serve a "clear cinematic vision." Catch it in 20 cities across Turkey come spring 2027.
