automaton

Inspiration

Who controls whom—humans controlling AI, or AI controlling humans? automaton explores this question through the lens of algorithmic obedience in daily life. Inspired by Japan's conformist organizational culture and our growing dependence on AI recommendations.

What it does

A 3-minute short film following Tanaka, an office worker in a society controlled by OpenGPT AI through AR glasses. When his resistance threatens his job and marriage, he surrenders—just as the system updates to GPT120.1, forcing absurd commands on everyone.

How we built it

• Scriptwriting: Claude Sonnet4.5
• Workflow: Freepik
• Image Generation: Google Nano Banana, Seedream4
• Video Generation: Kling
• Voice Generation: ElevenLabs
• Music Generation: Suno AI
• Post-production: Adobe Premiere Pro

Challenges we ran into

• Difficulty generating a complete script with AI
• Maintaining consistency between scenes
• Generation costs
• Managing generated assets

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Successfully completed a full film using AI tools.

What we learned

Storytelling is the greatest challenge in AI filmmaking.

What's next for automaton

Refining the narrative and creating a more developed story for the next project.

Built With

• claude-ai
• elevenlabs
• freepik
• kling
• premiere
• seedream
• suno-ai