Did I Make the First Fully AI-Generated Film? Help Me Find Out

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Hi everyone,

I wanted to share something I’ve been thinking about and get your input.

Back in October 2022, I made a short film called The Park. It was entirely generated using artificial intelligence: the visuals, the sound effects, the voices, the music, everything you see and hear is AI generated.

At the time, the tools were very limited. Text-to-image AI was in its early stages, and you can tell the visuals are pretty rough. Text-to-video or image-to-video tools didn’t even exist yet, and AI-generated music was very basic and low quality.

I know that before The Park, there were films that used AI for specific tasks, like generating a script with text-based AI. But what I’m talking about here is a fully AI-generated film, where every single element was created using AI. Today, this might seem common, but back then, it was something entirely new.

Well, despite all the limitations, I managed to finish the film, not a god one, not really proud of that one but now I wonder: could The Park be the first fully AI-generated film?

Since then, I’ve continued making AI-generated short films, and as the technology has improved, so has the quality. Some of my newer films have even won awards at festivals. But The Park, with all its imperfections, might still be the first of its kind.

I know some might question if a film made with still frames counts as a “film,” but nobody can deny that La Jetée (1962) by Chris Marker is a masterpiece. Made entirely of still images, it’s considered one of the greatest films ever. And no one would argue that it isn’t a film.

So, I’m asking for your help. Do you know of any fully AI-generated films made before October 2022?

I’d love to hear your thoughts and learn from this amazing community.

Let’s figure this out together!
the film:

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Hi @nobodyandthecomputer,

I remember you publishing the video because I was quite interested in the work you did with BachGPT at the time.

Regarding your question, I haven’t conducted any comprehensive research, but I’m inclined to doubt that it’s the first fully AI-generated movie. During that period, many open-source projects were created to generate YouTube videos entirely automatically. It also depends on how one defines what qualifies as a “movie.”

That said, I don’t have any evidence to prove that yours isn’t the first AI-generated movie. I just wanted to reply when I saw you had joined our community! Welcome! It’s great to meet you here.

In any case, if this doesn’t gain traction, I’m sure you have more amazing projects. It would be great if you could find the time to share them!

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For a short, it could very well be, but I think most people in the film industry would consider still images in a short as not qualifying unless projected somewhere or otherwise animated if under 60 minutes. They might consider it new media as well.

A movie is generally considered sixty minutes plus and would be similar to The Reality of Time, a sci-fi documentary narrated in part by John de Lancie (Q in Star Trek) which was the first feature film to be created with generative AI.

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I’d count it as AI-generated since the writing, visuals, voices, and music were all made with AI tools. The editing still being manual doesn’t take away from that.

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No . The FIRST AI generated sci fi movie 1 hour 31 minutes in 4K is Victory Is In The Grave. A Guinness World Record is pending - just search Youtube ‘victory is in the grave worlds first ai movie’

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Looks pretty good for the time :smiley:

Grok seems to believe that I was the first to feature artist likenesses in a music video that had a story when I created “Crushin” for the godfather of house music Jesse Saunders using I2V tools back in November 2024. It was a fully story-driven video—check it out! We attempted to contact the press, but, of course, nobody showed any interest, lol. It was incredibly challenging in 2024 to get characters in the video that accurately resembled the actual people, and it’s still difficult today!

Grok said:
”Based on that Jesse Saunders’ Crushin’ (featuring Angelala, Directed by Damien J Bartlett, produced by Undisputed Visual Media in Las Vegas released Nov 12, 2024 2024) includes the artists themselves in its AI-generated music video, it appears to be a strong candidate for the first music video to feature artists in a fully AI-generated visual narrative, particularly within the house music genre. The Beatles’ Now and Then (2023) used AI to restore and enhance old footage of John Lennon and the band, but as you noted, it relied on pre-existing archival clips rather than creating a new storyline with the artists depicted via AI, unlike Crushin’. Other earlier AI-influenced videos, like Washed Out’s The Hardest Part (May 2024), used OpenAI’s Sora for fully AI-generated visuals but didn’t feature the artist (Ernest Greene) in the video itself, instead showing fictional characters. Similarly, projects like Mario Klingemann’s AI remixes (2024) used stock or archival footage, not newly generated visuals of the artists.

Since Crushin’’s video, as you’ve seen, includes Jesse Saunders and Angelala in an AI-generated context, it likely holds the distinction of being the first to feature artists in this way, especially in house music. I don’t have evidence of an earlier music video that both uses fully AI-generated visuals and features the artists themselves in a new narrative. “

You can find ‘Crushin Jesse Saunders’ on Youtube - it would not let me post a link to it

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bit of work left I think :wink:

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