Doxumentale'26 Dx'Hub Visualizing the Invisible: AI Between Storytelling and Ethic
Dx'26 Dx'Hub Visualizing the Invisible: AI Between Storytelling and Ethic
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Dx'Hub

Visualizing the Invisible: AI Between Storytelling and Ethic

29 May, 2026, 3.30 PM @ Festival Centre: Atrium Tower

Event language: English

What can you do when there are no images? 

This session explores how AI can be used to visualize documentary stories – from reconstructing past events to representing inaccessible or invisible realities. It focuses on practical tools and methods for creating scenes, atmospheres, and narrative spaces without relying on traditional archival footage. Through case studies and discussion, the session examines how AI-driven visualization can be integrated into documentary storytelling, while also addressing its aesthetic and ethical implications. 

Participants will gain insight into workflows, tools, and creative strategies that can be applied to their own projects. Following the main session, participants will split into two parallel groups: a hands-on workshop exploring how images and sound can be generated, shaped, and reimagined—without losing their emotional truth. At the same time, a second, more discursive session will focus on the legal and ethical questions surrounding AI-generated imagery in documentary practice.

Tickets

Dx'Hub
29 May
3.30 PM
Atrium Tower

Program Info

Visualizing the Invisible

Guests

Silke Botsch

Silke Botsch (*1967, Berlin) is a Berlin-based editor and filmmaker working across narrative cinema, experimental film, and AI-based image production. Her work has been presented at major festivals including Berlinale, Cannes, Sundance, and Locarno. With a background in editing, she explores rhythm, perception, and subjective realities. Her recent work focuses on AI as a creative tool. Her first AI feature GRACE (2025/26) combines autobiographical and experimental documentary elements.

Ana Maria Salinas

Ana Maria Salinas is a Colombian journalist, political scientist, and communication specialist with 15+ years of experience in strategic communication, partnerships, and educational initiatives. She has worked across public, private, and cultural sectors, developing digital strategies and learning formats. At Tactical Tech, she supports AI and media literacy projects and builds global partnerships with schools, NGOs, youth groups, and cultural institutions.

Moderation

Valentin Thurn

Director Valentin Thurn gained international recognition with 'Taste the Waste - Global Food Waste' and '10 Billion - How can we feed everyone? Both films were huge hits with audiences and won numerous awards at home and abroad. In 2003, he founded ThurnFilm GmbH in Cologne and has since produced films by other authors and directors - always with a focus on socio-political content. In 2022 he was elected as one of the board members of AG Dok.
15.30  Visualizing the Invisible

Tickets

Dx'Hub
29 May
3.30 PM
Atrium Tower

Festival Centre: Atrium Tower

Eichhornstraße 3
10785 Berlin

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