If AI is coming for filmmakers, don’t tell that to director Damien Hauser .

In his latest feature, “Memory of Princess Mumbi,” which premieres in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival , the young Swiss Kenyan filmmaker imagines a retro-futuristic Africa set in the aftermath of a cataclysmic war, creating a rich visual tapestry that makes ample use of artificial intelligence.

The result — a playful, bittersweet meta-fiction that is part love story, part mockumentary — is a film that Hauser readily admits he could have never made without AI, even as he set out to “make a movie that AI could never make,” the director tells Variety .

“Memory of Princess Mumbi” is set in 2093, as a young documentary filmmaker, Kuve (Abraham Joseph), travels to the kingdom of Umata to doc

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