Alkan Avcıoğlu
Artist and former film critic who turned to AI storytelling in 2022 and directed and co-wrote Post Truth, billed as the first feature-length documentary generated entirely with AI.
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Biography
Alkan Avcıoğlu is an artist who works across artificial intelligence, film criticism, electronic music and academic research, according to his festival bio. Press describes him as a former film critic who spent more than a decade in film distribution and acquisitions before changing course.
In 2022 he turned to exploring the storytelling possibilities of AI. His AI works were among the first accepted into major traditional art fairs, including Paris Photo, Art Basel Miami, Zona Maco and Vogue Photo, and have been auctioned by Christie's.
His feature Post Truth (2025), a 102-minute English-language documentary, is credited to him as director and co-writer (with Vikki Bardot). He edited it from more than 60 hours of AI-generated footage, with AI-made images, music and sound, and its script took two years to write. Its sales agent, Odin's Eye Entertainment, bills it as the first feature-length AI-generated documentary and the first of a planned trilogy.
Post Truth was released in Turkish cinemas, premiered internationally at the Warsaw Film Festival, won the Audience Award at FrontDoc, and took Best Art Feature Film at the 42nd Asolo Art Film Festival in June 2026. It was also nominated for Best Editing and Best Music at the 58th Turkish Film Critics Association Awards. The first-of-its-kind claims come from the sales company.