Sunspring

6.4 / 10

(21 votes)

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.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Science Fiction

Duration:

9 minutes

Year:

2016

Director:

Oscar Sharp

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Company:

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Cast:
Thomas Middleditch

H

Humphrey Ker

C

Elisabeth Gray

H

Crew:
Oscar Sharp

Director

Benjamin

Writer

Yuki Noguchi

Director of Photography

Taylor Gianotas

Editor

Anna Delman

Production Design