In this episode of Film3 OG, Jordan sits down with British AI artist, filmmaker, music producer, and DJ Diane Laidlaw, known as Afro Futcha, for an inspiring and deeply personal conversation about creativity, representation, music, grief, and the power of finally allowing yourself to be seen.
Diane shares how discovering Midjourney during a difficult period in her life helped reconnect her with imagination, purpose, and a creative identity she had been suppressing for years. What began as experimentation with images became filmmaking, music videos, international recognition, and an entirely new chapter in her life and career.
They talk about Diane’s journey from web design and music production into AI filmmaking; the personal loss behind her award-winning video What Do I Know; and the extraordinary year that followed, including winning Project Odyssey, speaking at TEDAI in Vienna, appearing on the BBC, and taking her work to audiences around the world.
At the heart of the conversation is the importance of representation: women seeing women create, Black artists reclaiming and telling their own stories, and creators from historically excluded communities gaining access to tools that allow them to make visible what has always existed inside their imaginations.
Diane also reflects on the difference between being a creator and becoming a content machine, why she protects her artistic freedom from the demands of social media, and how AI has allowed her to transform lived experience, emotion, memory, philosophy, and cultural heritage into work that makes people feel.
The conversation moves through music, analog recording, Suno, Midjourney, ElevenLabs, Kling, Seedance, PixVerse, creative workflows, and the impossibility of mastering tools that change almost every week. Diane’s advice to emerging artists is simple and powerful: take off the pressure, begin small, and play.
This is a conversation about creative rebirth. About the courage to put your work into the world. About reaching back to help others see what may also be possible for them.
And above all, it asks: How can AI help us manifest the stories, sounds, dreams, and ideas that have lived inside us all along?
If you care about the future of cinema, music, representation, human imagination, and the evolving relationship between artist and machine, I think you’ll find a great deal in this one.
AFRO FUTCHA: https://x.com/misslaidlaw
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