A computer generated the screenplay for this short science fiction film.A computer generated the screenplay for this short science fiction film.A computer generated the screenplay for this short science fiction film.
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- TriviaThe screenplay was written by an artificial intelligence. The goal of the film was to see if a computer could write a screenplay that could win a competition.
- Crazy creditsThe opening titles read:
Just above your smartphone keyboard lives an artificial intelligence. It was trained on lots of texts and emails, And tries to guess what you'll type next.
We were curious what would happen if we trained this kind of software on something else;
Science fiction screenplays.
So we fed a LSTM Recurrent Neural Network with these: [Numerous screenplays are listed as .txt files.] Then gathered a cast & crew for one day.
Then we fed in random seeds from a sci-fi filmmaking contest...
Prompts Title: Sunspring Dialogue: "It may never be forgiven, but that is just too bad." Prop & action: A character pulls a book from a shelf, flips through it and puts it back. Optional science idea: In a future with mass unemployment, young people are forced to sell blood. ...Gave it a cup of really hot tea...
...And turned it on.
This was the screenplay it wrote:
[Screenplay shown on screen]
Along with these song lyrics: [Lyrics shown on screen]
What follows
is our attempt at making it.
Sunspring
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As we start to get closer to algorithmic technology in our lives, we have to figure out how it's going to take place in the creative field. We might think of technology and robots as a separate entity but in the end they are based from us. We have finally began to teach technology to be creative and this short is the equivalent of a child's first semi- coherent drawing. It has it's dialogue flaws, of course, sometimes things don't make sense or feel a bit wonky but it doesn't really matter, those flaws actually have a certain degree of charm to them. This might be the beginning of a new short lived genre I would like to call "algorithmic surrealism cinema"; something similar to the short Italian white telephone cinema movement that emerged after WWII. I believe this will be one of the most influential pieces of cinema in the years to come. It's the start of a new renaissance.
- javierm-62662
- Jun 10, 2016
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- Runtime9 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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