# Stop Making Sense

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- Canonical URL: https://artificial-images.com/project/stop-making-sense-sorting-randomness/
- Year: 2025, ongoing
- Medium and tools: Algorithmic Filmmaking, AI, 16mm Film, Moving Image
- Pathways: [Computational Films](https://artificial-images.com/pathways/computational-films.md), [Material Machines](https://artificial-images.com/pathways/material-machines.md)
- Media: 0 images, 3 videos
- Artist: Derrick Schultz

## About this work

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](https://www.winnipeguff.com/90-second-2026) at the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, June 2026. Per the rules, it will only ever be shown there.

*SMS004: Lausanne Villager*

*SMS005: Look, Man, Engage*

*SMS006: Madalibica*

Screening at [Analogica 16](https://www.analogica.org/) (2026). Screening exclusively at the festival.

*SMS010: Timer Two /nowhere*

Screened at [Video Musics](https://www.not-nowhere.org/on/video-musics-derrick-schultz) (Solo screening at not/nowhere, London, August 2026). Screened exclusively at the festival.

## Media

Videos cannot be watched by text agents; each entry gives its alt text, caption, Vimeo title and duration, and a description of the video.

### 1. Video `sms004-lausanne-villager`
- Description: Hand-made 16mm film frames of striped circles, halftone dot patterns, and splattered color
- Caption: Stop Making Sense 004: Lausanne Villager
- Source: Vimeo video 1192663023
- Vimeo title: Stop Making Sense 004: Lausanne Villager
- Duration: 4 min 13 s
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1192663023
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/stop-making-sense-sorting-randomness/?media=sms004-lausanne-villager

### 2. Video `moving-dot-shapes`
- Description: Moving dot shapes
- Caption: Stop Making Sense 01 (DJ Travella, London Bandcamp)
- Source: Vimeo video 1143308188
- Vimeo title: Stop Making Sense #1 (Dj Travella, London Bandcamp)
- Duration: 2 min 24 s
- Video description: 14,000 hand-made 16mm frames, sorted and reacting to the soundtrack.
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1143308188
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/stop-making-sense-sorting-randomness/?media=moving-dot-shapes

### 3. Video `sms005-look-man-engage`
- Description: Hand-made 16mm film frames of halftone dot patterns, red X marks, green color fields, and sprocket holes
- Caption: Stop Making Sense 005: Look, Man, Engage
- Source: Vimeo video 1193117601
- Vimeo title: SMS005: Look, Man, Engage
- Duration: 2 min 54 s
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1193117601
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/stop-making-sense-sorting-randomness/?media=sms005-look-man-engage

## External links

- [The 90 Second](https://www.winnipeguff.com/90-second-2026)
- [Analogica 16](https://www.analogica.org/)
- [Video Musics](https://www.not-nowhere.org/on/video-musics-derrick-schultz)

## Related

### Pathways

- [Computational Films](https://artificial-images.com/pathways/computational-films.md): Films shaped by rules, sorting, procedural editing, and machine-guided montage.
- [Material Machines](https://artificial-images.com/pathways/material-machines.md): Digital systems returned to film, paper, plotting, and handmade image-making.

### Tags

Algorithmic Filmmaking, AI, 16mm Film, Moving Image

### Related work

- [Anime](https://artificial-images.com/project/anime-manga-machine-contact-printing.md) (2024): Moving manga
- [•](https://artificial-images.com/project/dot-handmade-animation-ai-guidance.md) (2024): Guided by machines
- [Scream Scenes](https://artificial-images.com/project/scream-scenes-31-days-horror-videos.md) (2022): 31 Days of Experimental Horror
- [Acoustics of Light](https://artificial-images.com/project/so-will-b-now-audioreactive-16mm.md) (2026): The soundtrack does the editing.

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