The Creator

My name is Dale Dempsey.

This movie is a work of fiction inspired by my early work with The Deanshanger Oxide Works in the 1970's during my career with Tilcon Mortars and also from my work with ground granulated blast furnace slags with the Frodingham Cement Company. 

One of the mortar plants on my technical patch was just 3 miles from Ironbridge and I have some wonderful memories from 1979 (the bicentenary of the bridge), when the plant manager took me to see the bridge and introduced me to some wonderful people involved with the celebrations at that time. I still have an iron ashtray and a commemorative struck coin from that very day!

In 1979 I also worked at the Birmingham Science Museum a week prior to the opening, I was colouring the joints of the tiled floor beneath the wonderful "Smethwick Engine", which was also 200 years old that year! I was using earth-based ferric oxide black with a solution of waterglass. I had many nights on the tiles with Tilcon!

 

THE RAM OF IRON is a legendary tale of how the iron industry evolved from an ancient pit in the ground, and what could have happened if resources kept being plundered without sufficient respect being given to the ore.

I have had to wait just long enough for the latest advancements in artificial intelligence tools, to produce something I hope you will find entertaining, whilst also being strangely poetic in its storytelling. I wanted to produce a unique and individual piece of work that shows how AI can be employed to create something artistic yet compelling without the use of a voiced narrative.

The location is fictitious and is not be confused with the real village of Ironbridge!

There are a lot of historical inaccuracies regarding architectural, manufacturing processes and dresswear, but hopefully that adds to the charm!

This took me to my limits with the amount of time I had. The learning curve was pretty steep, especially with how the different AI programs interpreted my ideas and suggestions. I certainly had a lot of Photoshop editing to do before throwing it back into the AI portals! 

Although this video was made with AI, I seriously doubt that AI could ever make anything like it on it's own, unless it had some sort of uncanny weird brain!