MAY 8 · RUMIVERSAL STUDIO · ONE NIGHT

Beautiful Failure Becomes Cinema

AI Slop is a festival dedicated to artificial intelligence as a creative force: unstable, funny, unsettling, brilliant, chaotic.

We celebrate polished AI films, meme-born edits, and intentional visual disasters where human instinct and machine randomness collide. Film submissions are accepted via FilmFreeway only.

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Manifest

Digital Maximalism. Glitchcore. Uncanny Valley.

Why this exists

AI is no longer distant technology. It is a collaborator, a mirror, and a glitch generator. The visual dialect once dismissed as slop now defines our era.

What to expect

Rumiversal Studio becomes a living neural playground of AI-generated films, generative performances, absurd edits, and hybrid productions that refuse clean categories.

Atmosphere

Harsh neon lighting, acid colors, chromatic aberration, compression artifacts, liquid textures, and unstable visuals balanced by precise structure and clear user flow.

2026 Edition · Selected Films

Winners & Official Selection

Eleven films from this year's open call. Five took home category awards; six more screen as our Official Selection on May 8 at Rumiversal Studio.

Award Winners · Finalists

Category Winners

Selected by jury. Each title is both Finalist and Winner of the listed category.

Winner · Best AI Film

Legend

Dir. Ryan Patterson · Canada

In a fading world, an aging guardian teaches a young man to follow in his mother's footsteps.

19:00

Winner · Best AI Animation

Mom's Wish

Dir. Parallax Films

A strong-willed mother drags her grown daughter into an absurd quest for the best cemetery plot in the city — a darkly comic confrontation between two generations.

18:30

Winner · Best Generative Short

+ / − AURA

Dir. James Alex · Canada

Plus / Minus AURA: how much aura can one man gain — or lose — in a single day?

04:56

Winner · Best Meme Cinema

ZABB SHOW — Anti-Bullying

Dir. King Zabb · Kent, WA, USA

A late-night talk show fever dream filtered through public-access chaos and absurdist satire — Zabb interviews an anti-bullying activist who promptly gets bullied on air.

09:54

Winner · Best Human × Machine Collaboration

TheRealReal — L'Ultimo Uomo Reale

Dir. Rojan Teherani · Berlin, Germany

A man performs his own authenticity — journaling, healing, returning to nature — until small glitches betray the construction. Reality folds. Only one object remains.

02:00

Official Selection

Screening at the Festival

Programmed for the May 8 screening — no category award assigned.

The Shoot

Dir. Brendon · Toronto, ON

An aging wrestling announcer recounts his last memories of a pro-wrestler who suspiciously vanished in the 1980s.

13:13

HUNTED

Dir. Seby Varghese · Milton, ON

In a near-future reshaped by autonomous machines, two boys appear to flee through a forest. What unfolds is not escape — it is a trap, and a quiet shift of control.

06:25

The Engagement Gauntlet

Dir. Cale Frombach · Canada

Ten internet archetypes compete on America's #1 transformation experience. The grinder beneath the stage is already running.

04:10

Empathy Corridor

Dir. James Alex · Canada

A man discovers that the distance between denial and extinction is narrower than he thought.

04:54

After Two

Dir. Arturo Bustillos

RoRo, a queer Latino, navigates work, study, nightlife and intimacy without hiding any part of himself — set to the rhythm and visual language of reggaeton.

02:22

Three Pieces

Dir. ben sainsbury

A short autobiographical micro-film about ambition, Hollywood, and the aftertaste of success — told over sushi.

01:28

Nominations

Awards

Best AI Film

The most compelling overall AI-driven cinematic work.

Best Generative Short

Excellence in short-form AI storytelling.

Slop of the Year

The most gloriously chaotic, meme-born, culturally unhinged creation.

Best Human x Machine Collaboration

When the balance between author and algorithm feels alive.

Best AI Animation

Outstanding animated work powered by AI tools.

Best Meme Cinema

Transforming internet humor into moving image art.

Visual Glitch Award

Bold aesthetic experimentation and digital distortion.

Audience Signal Award

Chosen by viewers during the festival screening.

Future Prompt Award

Visionary exploration of AI as a medium.

Submission Rules

Rules (10)

Completion Date

Films must be completed in 2023 or later.

AI Involvement

The project must meaningfully involve AI tools.

Format

All genres are accepted: narrative, experimental, animation, documentary, meme-based, hybrid.

Duration

No strict runtime limit. Short and feature-length works are accepted.

Professional and Slop Friendly

Both polished productions and chaotic made-for-fun AI experiments are welcome.

Authorship Transparency

Submitters must briefly describe how AI was used in the creation process.

Originality

Entrants must hold rights to the submitted work and its AI-generated elements.

Language

Non-English films must include English subtitles.

Screening Format

Selected films must provide high-quality digital screening files.

Creative Freedom

Humor, absurdity, abstraction, and genre-bending are encouraged.

Submissions & Support

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