Ava DuVernay confirms AI use in Netflix's '14th'

DuVernay's '14th' arrives a decade after '13th' released via Netflix in 2016, and she made it through her ARRAY production company. The film screened for press and industry ahead of its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on Friday, October 9. Where '13th' looked at the prison industrial complex through the Thirteenth Amendment, '14th' turns to the Fourteenth Amendment, which covers citizenship, voting and insurrection, and the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, connecting that history to current attacks on those rights, according to the film's description. The AI question came from an audience member who did not identify themselves, and DuVernay did not deny the use of AI. She explained that the artists handling the film's photoscoping, parallax and animation process have some of that technology in their tools, and that it produces an effect similar to the stereoscope she wanted to evoke.