What Can You Learn From 'The Mass,' a Short Film Made by AI in 24 Hours | No Film School

I've been interested in digging into what artificial intelligence can do. While I don't think it's going to replace us as storytellers or creatives, I do wonder what the capabilities will be as the technology moves forward so rapidly.

Now, someone has created a short film using AI entirely.

Check out the short film from NEXT ON NOW and let's talk after.

What can I say? I found that thoroughly entertaining, and the animation style to be a little jerky but engrossing. The AI tools used to create this short are Elevenlabs, Runwayml's GEN2, and ChatGPT-4.

Apparently, they made this AI-generated short film in twenty-four hours.

My skepticism comes in with the idea that AI assisted them in making this – I wonder how much of the writing and ideation came from AI, also, what the human-controlled visual prompts would have been for it as well.

We don't have that info, but I will keep digging.

For now, I think we're good to enjoy the short film.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

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The Calvary King delivers a hopeful message to filmmakers who didn't get into Sundance.

Mark Duplass has always been a filmmaker's filmmaker. He famously delivered his "The Cavalry is Not Coming" speech at SXSW as a call to action for independent filmmakers to stop waiting and start shooting. Duplass also historically creates and works on small-budget indie projects, including being a key member of the lo-fi, bare-bones mumblecore movement. He's also a charismatic actor who brings a relatable ethos to every role he plays—not to mention seems like an overall cool dude.

We love Mark Duplass.

All the above considered, it's no surprise to see Duplass take to social media with an encouraging statement following the recently announced 2025 Sundance lineup this past Wednesday. Duplass, hot off positive reviews for the recently released The Creep Tapes on Shudder, warmly comforted filmmakers that if you happened to apply to Sundance and weren't selected, hey, that's okay. They curate 15,775. It happens.

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