Overview
- Araki confirmed he used AI-assisted post-production to clean audio and help with editing on a mini-golf dialogue scene that was shot next to a noisy freeway.
- I Want Your Sex is Araki’s first feature in more than a decade, co-written with Karley Sciortino and now playing in U.S. theaters from Magnolia Pictures starring Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman and Chase Sui Wonders.
- He framed the tools as practical fixes for technical problems in post-production while saying he does not support using AI to replace actors or writers.
- Araki highlighted how modern cameras, sensitive phone sensors and affordable software are lowering technical barriers and making effects and editing accessible to lower-budget filmmakers.
- He warned that Hollywood is undergoing major change and that easier production tools may help indie films compete even as financing and distribution remain difficult for small projects.