HYENAZ return to Munich’s University of Film and Television to teach a new workshop collaboration Pre-Production As Discovery, along with the artist and researcher Marlo Duchêne and hosted by Professor Beatrice Babin. The workshop is part of the University’s Summer School, and takes place from the 14th to the 18th of September.

This workshop offers filmmakers the chance to explore an emerging project and develop a proof of concept using generative AI, sound design, somatic practices, and creative exercises—not as finishing touches but as starting points. In most productions, sound and image-building tools arrive late or never. We reverse that sequence. You arrive with a raw concept—a mood, a texture, a fragment—and we begin generating audiovisual material immediately, before a screenplay exists.

Over five days on HFF’s LED virtual production stage, you’ll work collaboratively to build immersive sketches that become a film’s sensory language. Through hands-on experimentation with sound, movement, live AI visuals, and generative exercises rooted in human imagination rather than datasets, you’ll treat the sketch as a site of inquiry. These sketches evolve into a tangible, pulsing proof of concept—a sensory compass that guides what your project wants to become.

Along the way, we critically examine what these tools cost—practically, conceptually, ethically—and explore what it means to create with and beyond them. You’ll leave not with a treatment or a script, but with a vivid, working sense of your film’s sonic and visual world, ready to carry forward.

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