The New Unrated: AI Films from the Internet Underground

A field guide to the early wave of AI cinema: not tutorials, not tech demos, but short films where emerging tools are being shaped into mood, rhythm, story, and visual language.

This playlist features Total Pixel Space, JAILBIRD, One, Ellie, LAPSE, Exactly How I Remember It, Signal, TO THE VOID, FEAST, In Another Breath.

Films in this playlist

  1. Total Pixel Space — Jacob Adler · 2025. A strong anchor for the playlist because it treats AI not only as a visual trick, but as a philosophical problem about memory, reality, and infinite images.
  2. JAILBIRD — Andrew Salter · 2025. It shows how AI shorts can work best when they commit to absurdity, perspective, and a clear miniature premise instead of chasing photorealism alone.
  3. One — Ricardo Villavicencio & Edward Saatchi · 2025. Useful for your site because it places AI cinema near science-fiction tradition instead of treating it as a separate gimmick category.
  4. Ellie — UNVEIL · 2024. A clean example of AI-assisted filmmaking finding emotion through digital loneliness, neglect, and character design.
  5. LAPSE — Runway Gen:48 Team · 2024. This belongs here because craft is the important test: whether AI tools can support rhythm, editing, design, and atmosphere beyond novelty.
  6. Exactly How I Remember It — Holden Boyles · 2025. Memory is one of the strongest themes for AI cinema because generated images already feel half-remembered, reconstructed, and unreliable.
  7. Signal — Ray Jaffer · 2025. A good internet-cinema pick because it treats the screen as a signal source: something unstable, seductive, and possibly haunted.
  8. TO THE VOID — YZA Voku · 2025. The title says exactly where a lot of early AI cinema lives: between abstraction, cosmic mood, and half-formed narrative possibility.
  9. FEAST — Alex Naghavi, Dan Taplin & Sara DeCou · 2025. It is useful as a process film for your audience: the making of the piece is part of the story of the piece.
  10. In Another Breath — Asi Oren · 2026. This balances the playlist by showing that AI films are not only uncanny or dystopian; they can also aim for softness, emotion, and wonder.