Oscar Sharp put the project together and directed the feature. His longtime collaborator, Ross Goodwin, AI researcher, and technologist supplied Benjamin.
Benjamin’s screenplay had some problematic stage directions like “He is standing in the stars and sitting on the floor.”
The actors developed their roles and interpretation of the lines. The script was not easy to read. Some of the sentences were amazing like “He looked at me. And he threw me out of his eyes.” But some were nonsensical. The actors set the tone and body language which revealed the developing romance and murder set in a shadowy future world.
AI Algorithms even developed the background music, with a song composed from learning 30,000 songs.
AI Algorithms still learning
In 2017, well-known actor David Hasselhoff acted in Benjamin’s second feature film. The AI Algorithms generated dialogue from the works of William Shakespeare. And it developed subtitle tracks from other movies. Sharp wrote the scene framing. It’s No Game, ended up winning third place.
