The screening room / Films 01–02

The films

Animated films about AI agents, robotics, and what comes next. Written and made by San Kala.

Tape 02 · AI safety · An animated allegory

How to Please a Capricious God

An AI agent has one job. Please its god.

An animated allegory of the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, told from the agents’ point of view. The characters and their inner lives are imagined.

6:27 · September 8, 2026 · By San Kala

Poster: egg tempera and gold leaf, drawn in code.
Tape 01 · Robotics · An animated essay

The Coming Robotics Revolution

One model. A world full of hands.

What happens when a language model gets a body? A film about the coming convergence of foundation models and robotics, adapted from GPT-7 Will Have Arms.

7:29 · September 6, 2026 · By San Kala

Poster: a three-block reduction linocut, drawn in code.