Stop Making Sense is a generative filmmaking system that explores AI's (dis)ability to find order in nonsense. It combines my experimental film and algorithmic art practices, generating unique one-of-one audioreactive films from a series of ~20,000 (and growing) handmade 16mm film frames.
Since May 2026, any experimental film festival accepting submissions can get an exclusive Stop Making Sense made just for their festival. Accepted films screen exclusively at that festival and nowhere else; rejected films are published here. If you curate a festival and are interested, please get in touch.
Films:
Stop Making Sense 01 (DJ Travella, London Bandcamp)
2min, 2025. 14,000 hand-generated 16mm frames, sorted and sequenced using an audioreactive AI system
SMS002: Winnipeg Dilla
Screened as part of The 90 Second at the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, June 2026. Per the rules, it will only ever be shown there.
SMS006: Madalibica
Screening at Analogica 16 (2026). Screening exclusively at the festival.
SMS010: Timer Two /nowhere
Screened at Video Musics (Solo screening at not/nowhere, London, August 2026). Screened exclusively at the festival.