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The first film written entirely by an AI, performed like it meant every word
A 2016 sci-fi short whose screenplay came from an LSTM trained on decades of science fiction; actors and a director turned its impossible directions into a complete, strange film.
By 
Oscar Sharp @MrOscarSharp · 
Ross Goodwin @rossgoodwin
Official page with credits and the screenplay
Official Vimeo upload
What it does
A landmark experiment in machine writing: Ross Goodwin’s LSTM wrote the script, Oscar Sharp directed it, and a real cast performed it — stage directions and all.
Who it helps
People interested in AI storytelling and in where the humans still sit in the process.
How it was made
- Models
- Benjamin · LSTM screenwriter — creator-reported
- Tools
- LSTM · Screenplay generation
- Goodwin trained a recurrent network on dozens of sci-fi screenplays and it produced the script, including stage directions and dialogue.
- Sharp directed the cast through the garbled text — the actors and director decided what the scenes meant.
- The film was made for a 48-hour sci-fi challenge and released online in June 2016; its song lyrics were also machine-written.
What the person did
The film is remembered for the human interpretation: Oscar Sharp’s direction and the cast’s commitment to a script no person wrote.
What we know
Creator-reported: The official project page lists the credits, and the reference article documents the LSTM and the 48-hour challenge.
Access checked — 2026-09-26 · Opened the official project page and the reference article on 2026-09-26; the official Vimeo page title was confirmed through a fetch proxy because Vimeo is unreachable from this network.
Can you use it?
The film stays on its official upload and project page; we link only and host no stills. The cover is an original Made With Models illustration, not a frame from the film.
About this project
Picked by Made With Models. Added 2026-09-26. Updated 2026-09-26.