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What if you are not satisfied with your loverboy?
Goosebumps by Jessica Riches is a sharp, darkly comedic short that cleverly flips the script on AI-human relationships.
The writing is witty, the pacing tight, and the concept brilliantly executed within five minutes—no easy feat. What’s impressive is how quickly the audience is made to empathize with the AI itself, raising unsettling but necessary questions: Can AI learn empathy? Should we teach it through suffering? Who gets to define what ‘humanity’ even means?
It’s sexy, funny, uncomfortable—and stays with you. A beautifully told story of what it means to be human, and/or…almost human.
- Year2025
- Runtime5 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited Kingdom
- GenreSci-Fi, Comedy
- AwardsBest Live Action Short 05/2025, Best Comedy 05/2025
- DirectorJessica Riches
- ScreenwriterJessica Riches
- ProducerJessica Riches, Casey Newell
- CastMeg Barlowe, Austin Copps, Bryan Livaudis
What if you are not satisfied with your loverboy?
Goosebumps by Jessica Riches is a sharp, darkly comedic short that cleverly flips the script on AI-human relationships.
The writing is witty, the pacing tight, and the concept brilliantly executed within five minutes—no easy feat. What’s impressive is how quickly the audience is made to empathize with the AI itself, raising unsettling but necessary questions: Can AI learn empathy? Should we teach it through suffering? Who gets to define what ‘humanity’ even means?
It’s sexy, funny, uncomfortable—and stays with you. A beautifully told story of what it means to be human, and/or…almost human.
- Year2025
- Runtime5 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited Kingdom
- GenreSci-Fi, Comedy
- AwardsBest Live Action Short 05/2025, Best Comedy 05/2025
- DirectorJessica Riches
- ScreenwriterJessica Riches
- ProducerJessica Riches, Casey Newell
- CastMeg Barlowe, Austin Copps, Bryan Livaudis