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Sunspring. The first film ever written entirely by an artificial intelligence.

Written by Benjamin - a collaboration with Ross Goodwin.

Starring Thomas Middleditch, Elisabeth Grey & Humphrey Ker. An End Cue production. Full credits.

Get the screenplay here. Get hi-res stills here. Get the song, also written by Benjamin, here. 

Made in 48 hours for Sci-Fi London's 48hr Film Challenge. Placed in top 10.

Benjamin's 2nd Film
​IT'S NO GAME

Benjamin collaborates on a script about Benjamin.
​
Starring David Hasselhoff, 
Sarah Hay, Tom Payne,
​Tim Guinee & Jake Broder

Made in 48 hours for Sci-Fi London's 48hr Film Challenge.
3rd place.

Benjamin's 3rd Film
ZONE OUT

Attempt to have Benjamin write & act & direct & score a film.

Starring poor simulations of
Thomas Middleditch,
​Elisabeth Grey & Humphrey Ker.

Made in 48 hours for Sci-Fi London's 48hr Film Challenge. Disqualified for excessive use of existing footage.

SELECTED COVERAGE
​(for press or other enquires get in touch)


​INTERVIEWS

​​Ars Technica
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Chicago Tribune
Arte
FiveThirtyEight
Popular Science
NPR - The Pulse
Canadian National Radio
Australian National Radio
Canal+ (French National TV)
Slashfilm
El Pais
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​ARTICLES
(200+ Worldwide)
​
​The Guardian
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Indiewire‎
Sunspring: Herald of the Future
Financial Times
Daily Mail
NPR Marketplace
New York Post
Dim the House Lights
Le Monde (french)
La Repubblica (italian)
​​Spiegel (german)
Techcrunch Japan (japanese)
Korea Times
Motherboard
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Racked
CBS News
Singularity Hub
Ladygeekgirl
Mic
Bustle
The Mary Sue
Daily Express
International Business Times
Irish Times
Forbes
Slate
Big Think

Inquisitr
CNET
BoingBoing

Quartz
A.V. Club

Huffington Post
io9
Kinja
Gizmodo
Techcrunch

The Quint
9 News Australia
Reddit
Letterboxd
Slashdot
Kill Screen
NoFilmSchool

Engadget
Fast Company
Yahoo Tech
Cinefiles
Digital Spy
Futurism
Inquirer

mental_floss
Inverse
Gear Patrol

New Atlas
ZME Science
Collider
Hypebeast
TheNextWeb
Comicbook
Mashable

The Film Stage
BGR
Silicon Republic

Sputnik News
Daily Dot
Cyber Shack
Blastr
Catch News
The Drive
​Mouv Radio (french)
RTS (french)
Fayerwayer (spanish)
Mostaqbal (arabic)
Estadao (portuguese)
Agambiarra (portuguese)
Reporterdiario (portuguese)
Zeit (german)
Computerra (russian)
Goygoygoy (turkish)
Business Day South Africa
IBT India 
Bogoshorts

​ONLINE & VIDEO


​​wikipedia.org/wiki/sunspring 

TWITTER
​trending peaked at 2 tweets per second

Watch a short SF film gloriously fail the Turing Test: https://t.co/4uJRF3tC5z

— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) June 10, 2016

Wow https://t.co/31eDpvMtu5

— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) June 9, 2016

This sci fi film is written by AI algorithm, and it's magnificent. The actors fully commit. https://t.co/AnN0CNM4ln

— ben goldacre (@bengoldacre) July 2, 2016

@MrOscarSharp @benjamin_ai @rossgoodwin: I guessed right. :) Benjamin is rather wordy and absurdist, yes?

— Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) June 16, 2016

WIRED magazine

​Square Idée on ARTE

AT&T SHAPE

​TEDxBOSTON

​Bloomberg ART + AI

Keynote at GitHub Universe

New York Magazine

L'Oeil De Links - CANAL+

Sunspring - L'Oeil de Links du 08/10

​CBC RADIO - "q" - Full Interview
Discussion from 32:15, interview from 1:03:00.
​Instagram
Picture

​​YouTube - RickyFTW discusses Sunspring on ETC - 123K views.


​GALLERIES

Grand Palais Paris
London Barbican
London Science Museum
Onassis Cultural Centre
Athens
BRANDTS, Odense, Denmark
Kunstverein Frankfurt
Seoul Museum of Art


​SPEAKING / EVENTS

TEDx Boston
Lincoln Centre
Cannes Lions

Sundance
SXSW
Berlinale

AT&T SHAPE
Santa Fe Institute Interplanetary festival
NEXT Conference Seoul
GitHub Universe
Lillehammer University



​For press, or any other enquires, get in touch.
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      • Ross Goodwin
      • Ben Mezrich