Wednesday, 4 March 2026
2:30 — 3:30 pm
BR-151
Associate Lecturer in Digital Film at London South Bank University
Rohit Gill is a filmmaker, VFX artist, and Associate Lecturer in Digital Film at London South Bank University. Working across hybrid filmmaking, AI moving image generation, and digital compositing, his practice explores mythology, liminal spaces, and the felt presence of non-human actors in cinematic storytelling.
Rohit presents Oltoroiwo – The Forest, a short film that merges AI-generated characters, CGI, and creature design into an experimental narrative world. The talk traces the production of the film, focusing on a hybrid workflow that brings together ComfyUI-based image/video/audio generation with more established digital tools for film production.
Through clips, process breakdowns, and discussion, Rohit reflects on the cinematic uncanny and cosmology in digital storytelling, asking how perception, presence, and sensory experience are reconfigured when AI systems become collaborators in the construction of screen space.
