Four AI sci-fi short films worth your evening

Science fiction is where AI filmmaking shows off. Worlds that would cost a studio millions get built in a bedroom. Here are four AI sci-fi short films from the catalogue that use that freedom well.

Jackpot is a sci-fi comedy set on an Earth buried under its own garbage, where a salvage worker finds the last living tree in the universe and sees a payday instead of a miracle. It was made for the Astana AI Film Festival and it is funnier than it has any right to be.

Calling from Tomorrow does found footage with generative tools. A man starts getting phone calls that should not be possible, and the film stays small and grounded until it is not.

Time Broken is a ten minute sci-fi short, one of the longer pieces on the site, which counts for a lot in a format where most people tap out at two minutes.

Yuga: The End Begins goes big: a dystopia run by corrupted AIs, and a warrior modeled on the final avatar of Vishnu riding a mechanical horse. Mythology and machine war in one frame.

There are more where these came from. Try a sci-fi search or the full new films feed, and vote on what you watch.