Sunspring (2016)
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.
Director: Oscar Sharp
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Thomas Middleditch as H |
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Humphrey Ker as C |
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Elisabeth Gray as H |
| Production | Andrew Kortschak | Producer |
| Production | Andrew Swett | Producer |
| Production | Walter Kortschak | Executive Producer |
| Production | Allison Friedman | Producer |
| Sound | Andrew Orkin | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Benjamin | Writer |
| Directing | Oscar Sharp | Director |
| Art | Anna Delman | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yusuke Tateishi | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yusuke Tateishi | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Yuki Noguchi | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Taylor Gianotas | Editor |
| Visual Effects | Justin Chandra | Visual Effects |
| Sound | Taylor Gianotas | Sound |
| Sound | Mike Robertson | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | Carol Beadle | Costume Design |
