This ID Film uses AI-generated visuals to capture the evolution and expansion of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) over the past 30 years, unfolding its journey into a new era through the voyage of a chameleon.

The video begins like a nature documentary, featuring a chameleon that refuses to blend into the leaves, remaining blue despite the looming threat of an eagle. As the eagle draws closer, the chameleon boldly mimics the eagle¡¯s own colors and movements. Just as it seems the chameleon has been captured by the eagle at the critical moment, it then encounters the ¡®Fantastical Cells.¡¯ In that transformative moment, it sprouts wings, acquires iridescent skin, and evolves into a being that chooses its own colors?no longer merely to survive, but by its own volition. Boarding a spaceship, it travels through worlds of various genres, physically absorbing and reinterpreting the vast universe that BIFAN has built over three decades. Toward the end, the raw, warm texture of vintage fisheye lenses and low-resolution cameras signals that the chameleon's journey has ultimately brought it to the very origin?1997, the birth of BIFAN.

Through this odyssey, the film confronts pressing questions head-on: "Does technology dilute the essence of a film festival?" and "How can AI coexist with a festival's core identity?"

By nature, a chameleon changes its color to blend in and survive. However, this particular chameleon refuses to hide when everyone else does; it maintains its own distinct color while others conform. Facing danger, it does not flee?it observes, it mimics, and it ultimately strives to soar higher.

For 30 years, BIFAN has welcomed the strange, the unfamiliar, the novel, and the yet-unnamed worlds. Our chameleon stands as a symbol of that very spirit. Wrapped in NEW SKIN, it flies toward NEW ERA, proving that it is still on a journey to rediscover the curiosity and freedom that BIFAN first embraced at its inception.