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Sunspring

64 %|Jun 9, 2016|Science Fiction

Sunspring is a short film about three people living in a weird future, possibly on a space station, probably in a love triangle. You know it's the future because H (played with neurotic gravity by Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch) is wearing a shiny gold jacket, H2 (Elisabeth Gray) is playing with computers, and C (Humphrey Ker) announces that he has to "go to the skull" before sticking his face into a bunch of green lights. It sounds like your typical sci-fi B-movie, complete with an incoherent plot. Except Sunspring isn't the product of Hollywood hacks—it was written entirely by an AI. To be specific, it was authored by a recurrent neural network called long short-term memory, or LSTM for short. At least, that's what we'd call it. The AI named itself Benjamin.

Featured Crew

Oscar Sharp
Director
Benjamin
Writer
Yuki Noguchi
Director of Photography
Taylor Gianotas
Editor
Anna Delman
Production Design
Carol Beadle
Costume Design
Yusuke Tateishi
Makeup Artist
Yusuke Tateishi
Hairstylist