AI films worth watching.

scifi / fantasy / featured

Cipriano returns with his special blend of sci-fi, fantasy, beautiful skies and comedy. An explorer sets out to figure out the secrets of an insect-robot species in this throwback romp.

horror

Jesse Torres' unforgettable horror film juxtaposes a zombie uprising against the strife of marginalized Philadelphia citizens. It's part political commentary, part horrifying action film. Though the tools used here have aged, this short film still contains some of the most visually memorable moments we've seen.

documentary / funny and weird

AI or Die's particular brew of humor and awkward characters are on full display in this smorgasbord of middle-age vignettes. An award-winning mockumentary that will have you believing leprechauns are definitely real.

new / scifi / action

Non-stop action, explosions, guns and car chases take center stage in Bianca's cyberpunk series, showing off new Seedance 2.0 tools. 

experimental

Project: Forbin continues his unique oeuvre of stop-motion AI hybrids with this unsettling fox hunt through the woods.

documentary / funny and weird / new

Inspired by the spirit of Denmark summers, Tammes ' surreal short doc presents a world inhabited by boyish flowers. Midsommar meets BBC nature in square.

experimental / new

There's no doubt that Kajimelo's industrial-complex study is presented in a style both reminiscent of some greats and unique to his own drawings. An avant garde commentary about industry, transcendence, and what happens when you try to manufacture the sacred.

drama

A short, lush anime tale of a warrior's past and future, in the vein of Kazuto Nakazawa.

funny and weird / scifi / new

A water spider is a logistics and material handler role inside a fulfillment center, and this well-paced short feels more like science-fact than science-fiction. Funny work from Adam Cosco's Filmed With Words label. 

scifi / new

Echoing classic space operas while carving out its own world-building identity, this planet hopping sci-fi adventure favors momentum over perfect transitions. Yet its strong character design, confident scene construction, and consistently entertaining storytelling are surpisingly good at hooking you in.

new / action / fantasy

A child knight's epic adventures across sea and land. Beautiful narration and colorful, well-constructed shots make this tightly executed fable stand out.

fantasy / trailer / new

A boy travels into a land of dreams and meets a girl who guides them on an adventure to find an elusive island in this ethereal trailer from analogmirage. An award-winning ai film that finds inspiration in everything from Peter Pan to Inception. 

A documentary short that uses AI tools to investigate border checkpoints and the bureaucratic violence embedded in systems of control. One of the most formally ambitious early AI documentary films.

The film that started the conversation. In 2016, Oscar Sharp fed an LSTM neural network every sci-fi screenplay he could find and let it write one. Thomas Middleditch delivered the resulting dialogue with a straight face. Sunspring is where AI cinema began.

A grieving soldier poses as a priest to hunt down the alien who murdered his wife and discovers a dark secret about humanity's place in the universe.

A dinner table becomes the site of something deeply wrong in this atmospheric short. Made in 48 hours, FEAST uses the ritual of eating to explore power, desire, and appetite in its darkest sense.

A short film by Seif Abdalla exploring a world with its own unsettling rules, a realm that operates just outside the logic of the familiar.

A modern adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis." Written, created, and edited by Roope Rainisto using RunwayML Gen-2, ZeroScope, SDXL, MidJourney, and ElevenLabs.

An AI caretaker wanders the ruins of a dead city in a surreal post-human future, searching for someone it was built to protect. A heartbreaking sci-fi short about purpose without an owner.

About responsibility and what we owe the people, or things, left in our care.