

This film is part of Civil Protection, a comedy series based in the game Half Life 2 and in this award-winning episode, the protagonists investigate some strange noises.ĭo you love me? – Chris Wilson (2013) 3:26Ĭ has been touted as one of the most advanced artificial intelligences ever. Machinima is the use of computer game engines to tell stories.

Ross Scott is probably the best known maker of Machinima on the internet, thanks to his classic Half Life-based series “Freeman’s Mind”. All dialogue and two stage directions were written by the AI, with the creators providing further stage direction based on the script. (With a script by Alexis Kirke’s Zenman software) For this experimental film, a purpose-built AI program (a rule-based system called ZenMan) was challenged to write something both original and funny… After being fed with Romantic Comedy scripts, the AI was asked “What is love?” In response, it created a story of two city workers attempting to rescue their relationship after their previous attempt at courtship ended in disaster. Zenman in Love – Klaas Diersmann (2018) 12:00 WORLD PREMIERE The result allows for fascinating spatial-temporal distortions as the viewer experiences various instants in time simultaneously. Algoshorts has two halves lasting about 1 hour each, with a 15-minute interval in between.Ī sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey is sliced into 40 vertical bars each moving at a slightly different rate while coalescing in the centre of the piece for a single frame.

Since Algoshorts 2013 there has been an explosion of algorithmic filmmaking, the most famous of which are collected together here. Having had 400 submissions to consider, we will be presenting a number of short films from around the world, sometimes embracing PACMF’s theme Decoding Life, and sometimes focusing on algorithms.

Algoshorts is the world’s first public festival of short fiction films on the topic of algorithms. Both editions have been part of the PACMF festival. This is the second edition of Algoshorts, the first being in 2013. No Comments Algoshorts 2018 Festival Director – Alexis Kirke
