Learn together. Build together. Evolve together.
ARTOS Foundation is an independent, international nonprofit platform supporting the responsible integration of new technologies and artificial intelligence into the film industry.
A collaboration network for the next era of cinema
ARTOS Foundation is a collaboration network: an independent, international nonprofit platform where filmmakers, technologists, educators, and legal experts work together on the responsible integration of new technologies and artificial intelligence into the craft of cinema.
It is built on the MIT model of the Collaborative Innovation Network, a community bound not by hierarchy but by a shared mission, where knowledge, experimentation, and leadership circulate freely, and every contribution returns to the network as a shared resource.
ARTOS was established in response to a structural shift in the moving image. For the first time, pictures can be generated not only by a camera but by generative algorithms, changing who makes creative decisions, how authorship is defined, and how a film comes together. That shift demands a common language, a shared methodology, and working standards. ARTOS exists to build them, so filmmakers lead this transition rather than follow it.
What are we building and why
We help filmmakers and producers integrate new technologies and AI without losing authorship, creative leadership, quality of collaboration, or responsibility for the picture, working toward a film industry in which these technologies are shaped with filmmakers rather than around them. ARTOS develops practical methods, shared language, and working standards, built by cinematographers, directors, producers, educators, technologists, and legal experts, so the evolution of cinema strengthens authorship, collaboration, and creative responsibility. Five pillars carry that work.
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Research
Independent investigation of tools, pipelines, and hybrid or fully generative methods, together with the legal frameworks around them. Findings feed the standard and are documented and shared openly within the network.
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Education
Programs for working professionals and the next generation of filmmakers: workshops, lectures, guest sessions at film schools, and curriculum built around the standard and real production practice.
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Production
Advisory support and pilots that test the standard on real productions, covering planning, budgeting, integration, and delivery, with results documented for the whole community.
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Community
A working community of cinematographers, directors, producers, educators, technologists, and legal experts who apply the standard’s shared principles in daily practice, report what they learn, and co-validate the standard as it evolves.
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Legal Standards
Work on the legal and regulatory evolution of the field: developing and maintaining the standard so it protects authorship rights, clarifies attribution, and supports compliance as AI enters the creative process.
What we have done so far
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Pioneering Generative Cinematography
A lecture on generative AI and video diffusion models, laying the foundation for filmmakers to understand the algorithmic processes now entering their craft.
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PSC Awards Gala
Presenting the concern for the future of cinematography, and the intention behind ARTOS Foundation, to the Polish cinematography community at the PSC Awards Gala.
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Cinematography World Magazine
The January/February 2026 issue published Bartosz Nalazek’s text on Visual Leadership alongside a thought piece on the future of cinematography.
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Visual Leadership
A ten day course on Generative Filmmaking, teaching the visual structure behind narrative and introducing the concept of Visual Leadership to a new generation of image makers.
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AI/VP Atelier
A two day workshop for filmmakers on current practices in generative AI film, combined with hybrid volume work that enables performance capture with actors supported by generative set design.
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Future of the Film Industry: directions of development in the era of new technologies.
A webinar for members of the Polish Filmmakers Union (ZZF) and community on the latest developments on AI in the Film Industry.
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GenJam
Team ARTOS won the Machine Cinema GenJam Director’s Cup, run with OpenArt: an international tournament of films made with generative AI against the clock. Across sixteen countries and 510 films, Poland beat France, Nigeria and the United States, then Indonesia in the final, and two ARTOS crews reached the podium: SIREN in 2nd and ELEGY in 3rd. Four hours per film, with generative AI as another tool in the filmmakers’ hands.
Watch Our Films
At home in ATM Studio
ARTOS Foundation is headquartered at ATM Studio in Warsaw, one of the largest film and television studios in Poland.
We have partnered with ATM Virtual to run our community events and workshops, and to use their virtual production stages for research and for building our own practices. Their volume stages and expertise give the network a real place to test how new technologies meet the work on set.
Working with the industry
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Polish Society of Cinematographers (PSC) ↗ The professional body of Polish cinematographers, authors of the image. -
Polish Filmmakers Union (ZZF) ↗ The film industry trade union defending the rights and working conditions of audiovisual crews. -
Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School ↗ The film school of the University of Silesia in Katowice, educating new generations of directors and cinematographers.
Leading the Foundation
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Bartosz Nalazek
Founder, President of the Board
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Adam Bajerski PSC
Vice-President of the Board · Cinematographer
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Katarzyna Piotrowska-Mańko
Attorney · IP Law
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Klaudia Pachuta
Director of Development & Partnerships
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Maciej Mackiewicz
Foundation Attorney
Honorary Board Member Janusz Kamiński
Cinematographer · two-time Academy Award winner
A two-time Academy Award winner and the longtime creative collaborator of Steven Spielberg, Janusz Kamiński is one of the defining image makers of contemporary cinema. His presence affirms the Foundation’s commitment to authorship, craft, and the belief that the future of the moving image must be shaped by practitioners who understand the responsibility and expressive power of visual storytelling.
Guided by practitioners
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Maciej Żemojcin
AI film technology creative advisor
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Katarzyna Zyg
Executive producer · Management Board of the Polish Filmmakers Union (ZZF)
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Phedon Papamichael ASC
Cinematographer
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Pınar Seyhan Demirdağ
AI director · co-founder of Cuebric
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David Heuring
Writer & industry strategist
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Piotr Śliskowski PSC
Cinematographer · President of the Polish Society of Cinematographers
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Jacek Nagłowski
Director · VR/AR researcher · Łódź Film School
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Matt Szymanowski
Film director & producer · advocate for AI driven innovation in cinema
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Radosława Bardes
Managing Director of ATM Virtual · virtual production
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Andrzej Młynarczyk
Managing Director of ATM Virtual · ATM Studio board member
Our members
The people building ARTOS together.
Join the network
ARTOS is a working community, not a passive membership. There are four ways to take part. Choose the one that matches how you want to contribute.
ARTOS was founded in response to a defining moment for cinema. For the first time in film history, images can be generated not only through the camera and the set, but through algorithms, and with that shift comes a new responsibility to protect authorship, creative leadership, and the collaborative nature of filmmaking.
We believe these changes cannot be left to platforms or technology providers alone. They must be shaped by filmmakers, together with producers, educators, legal experts, and technology partners, in ways grounded in real practice.
ARTOS exists to create that space: a platform for shared learning, experimentation, and the development of standards that help new technologies strengthen, rather than weaken, the craft, responsibility, and expressive power of cinema.