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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 is
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 is for
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 uploads. It plays here through the official YouTube upload its project page uses, when a visitor loads it; we 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.