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Window Seat

Release Date: July 21, 2023

"Window Seat" marks a historic milestone in cinema as the first feature-length film ever made with complete AI video and AI performances. Hooroo Jackson pushes the boundaries of technology and storytelling, creating a darkly comic mind-bender, with a neorealist black and white indie aesthetic crossed with machine-generated magic realism.

At 10,000 feet, tech CEO Thom Claw's life unravels during the flight from hell. As damaging chat logs threaten his career, he comes face-to-face with an unexpected passenger: Raiden, his high school bully. Trapped in the confines of the airplane, Thom must navigate professional turmoil and confront long-buried personal traumas.

As national backlash mounts and cancellation looms, the torment from his past intensifies, building to an explosive final showdown. Meanwhile, Thom's girlfriend Millie proves to be an unexpected source of anguish, twisting the knife deeper into his wounded psyche.

But "Window Seat" is more than a technological showcase, it's a groundbreaking work of cinema heralding an entirely new artform. 4,000 AI-generated videos were meticulously woven into a cohesive narrative, with dialogue crafted line by line through an intensive AI-process.

Hooroo Jackson's visionary film shines through the constraints of AI, resulting in a film that is at once innovative and deeply human. "It's the kind of hard indie we only saw in the 90s," Jackson recounts, "giving rise to people like Aronofsky, Mamet, or LaBute. To have that today is only possible through AI."

  • Hooroo Jackson
    Director
    Aimy in a Cage
  • Hooroo Jackson
    Writer
    Aimy in a Cage
  • Hooroo Jackson
    Producer
    Aimy in a Cage
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental
  • Genres:
    Thriller, comedy
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 1 minute
  • Completion Date:
    July 21, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    190 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:33
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Hooroo Jackson

Hooroo Jackson is an award-winning American filmmaker. His first film, "Aimy in a Cage," starred Allisyn Ashley Arm, Crispin Glover, Paz de la Huerta, and Academy Award Nominee Terry Moore. His subsequent work in AI led to several groundbreaking firsts in the history of cinema, including "Window Seat" (2023) the first AI feature film ever made with complete AI video and performances, and "DreadClub: Vampire's Verdict" (2024) the first full-length animated film with 100% of its sound, music, video, and performances made with AI tools. In late 2024 he published the most comprehensive book on AI film theory to date, called "The New Machine Cinema: Foundational Essays in AI Film Theory."

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Director Statement

"One of the most surprising things I found is that all those techniques worked. I soon found that even the most complicated scenes were possible through film craft. I even found that AI offered unique opportunities that even traditional live-action filmmaking couldn't match. The storm scene, for instance, would have been impossible to achieve in live action, and in traditional animation, the dedication of resources required for this scene would have been cost-prohibitive.

"While everyone was arguing whether A.I. should exist at all, my aim was to take a leap forward and shift the technology from tech demos to a legitimate independent feature film."