# Original Voice

- Date: 2023-02-21
- Type: film
- Credit: Jordan Rosenbloom
- Genre: Experimental
- Artists: [Jordan Rosenbloom](https://aifilmhistory.org/artist/jordan-rosenbloom)
- Made with: DALL-E 2
- Award: Honoree — Runway AIFF 2023 — Runway AI Film Festival 2023
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=785BhEABX5s
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/original-voice

A young filmmaker faces an empty prompt box with a Generate Film button and types "create a short film with an original voice." What follows is the machine's answer, a stream of images on every meaning of the word voice: the inside of a larynx, boomboxes, an opera house, the civil rights movement, a bird over a city beach. Every image began in DALL-E 2 and was then reworked and recut by hand. An Honoree at [Runway's first AI Film Festival](https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/aiff-2023), it was cited in Filmmaker Magazine as a picture of the prompt box as a magnified blank page.

Links:
- AIFF 2023 winners: https://aif.runwayml.com/2023
- Original Voice on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/804413800

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/original-voice
Era: 2023 · The Cambrian Explosion
Last updated: 2026-10-19