Jan Bot is the first filmmaking bot hired by EYE Filmmuseum to bring film heritage to the algorithmic age.
Jan Bot is programmed by filmmakers Bram Loogman and Pablo Núñez Palma to generate experimental videos based on two ingredients: EYE's found footage collection Bits & Pieces, and today's trending topics.
To generate a film, Jan Bot makes use of Computer Vision technology to annotate each shot of the collection with a set of tags. Then, it uses Natural Language Processing tools to select relevant footage for the trending news of the day. Finally it generates various intertitles from news snippets related to the topic, using its own custom algorithms.
At the end of a working day, Jan Bot selects its favorite film and publishes it on its social media accounts: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.