Weird to Be Human

Born from steel and glass Kino Kopf is created by two inventors. They are assembled by their mother, a nurturing artist, and their Father a greedy entrepreneur. Kino Kopf is the first of its kind a sentient humanoid VHS camera. They are given a life by their mother but presented to the world by their father. Kino Kopf is the next big sensation and spurs a technological revolution. They are soon forgotten and alone as new models surpass them. Kino Kopf is left alone to contemplate if they ever had a soul, as visions of an electric cowboy dance through their dreams.

Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself.

In a bleak and desolate world, a small creature seeks out the woman of his dreams: a high-flying circus performer with a cruel and possessive ringmaster.

Two scientists uncover the secrets of time travel, but will their love for one another destroy existence itself.

All shorts films of director Jan Kounen on DVD.

Anne is a near-future sci-fi short that explores the consequences of outsourcing our thoughts, emotions, and decisions to AI. Maya installs a cutting-edge AI home assistant which, due to a malfunction, highlights the dangers and imperfections of this new technology, and asks the question: if something can think for you, why wouldn't you let it?

A video journalist and his film crew embark on a journey into an isolated forest, only to find their excursion turned into a fight for survival for not just themselves, but the entire human race.

After the underlying tech for M3GAN is stolen and misused by a powerful defense contractor to create a military-grade weapon known as Amelia, M3GAN's creator Gemma realizes that the only option is to resurrect M3GAN and give her a few upgrades, making her faster, stronger, and more lethal.

Synapse follows a story of a female shut-in gig worker who does whatever it takes to have breakfast with her husband once again.

A desperate writer signs up for a fully A.I. operated retreat to cure her writer's block, but when an unforeseen software glitch occurs, she gets trapped inside her unit with an unstable android and no communication with the outside world.

Sarah, a struggling young woman, agrees to volunteer as a test subject and be implanted with the LEXX nanochip for a pharmaceutical company experiment. She hopes that the money received for her participation will solve her financial troubles. When the implant turns sinister and orders her to commit crimes, Sarah is plunged into a murderous spiral with only one choice: to live or die.

Karayr is a philosophical post-apocalyptic tale set after a biological war that has regressed humanity to its primitive form. A Man in the cave, a lone survivor, tries to civilize a caveman attempting to restore humanity.

A Woman attempts to exploit the human experience to use as a dataset for a program that will generate an infinite number of scenarios through machine learning. Unfortunately, as the computer continues to fail, the people contributing to the dataset start running out of ideas.

An anxious scientist is stationed at a research outpost on an alien moon. The location is about to enter an extended period of darkness, during which no one is to go outside.

A woman struggles to hold on to who she is in the midst of an unraveling relationship with her new robotic companion.

Hara

In The Slit Throat

A young boy gets a gift, But each night someone goes missing.

A mysterious remote falls from the sky.

This short film tells the story of a generated artificial intelligence against a human writer. The short represents an experimental attempt to use AI throughout the entire short film making process, from pre-production to post-production.