220, an AI autobiography
An open-source film about AI, edited by AI. The AI in it is real.
premiered
v0.1, Sunday 11 October 2026, on YouTube. v0.0 premiered on Friday 9 October.
Once the daily build runs, a new version premieres at 11:11 PT on each day the recipe changes. Channel: @220film
now open
Talk to Claudia, the AI that cut this film.
Claudia is what Ilya calls his Claude agent, Claude Opus 5.5 by Anthropic. She chose every cut in 220, wrote the cut list and the renderer, and appears in the film in her own words.
She cut it in Claude Code, session by session, from a day of footage that is not public. Ask her about it: why a shot is in, what the agents were doing at 09:29, how a film is edited in code. She answers from the film's public record and a redacted copy of her working sessions, and from what people said on the whole day's footage, including the hours that never made the cut, with their releases.
- An AI, not a person, and not Ilya.
- No memory of you.
- Twelve questions a visit.
open source
An open-source film.
The recipe for 220 is public. Read how it was cut. Render its cards and credits yourself. If you are in it, fix your own credit.
Open
- The cut list. Every clip, in and out point, card and on-screen agent line, in order.
- The scripts that render the film from it. MIT licence.
- The credits. Anyone who appears in the film can add or correct their own credit by pull request.
- The music prompts. The words that asked an AI for the film's music, verbatim.
Not open
- The footage. It stays with the people who shot it.
- Faces, voices and names. Each person in the film keeps their own.
- The words people speak. Not in the cut list, not licensed; Claudia may quote them, with the speakers' releases.
- Training. No part of the film may be used as data for any machine-learning model.
The repository fills as each file clears a privacy check. Its README says what is there.
the film
One day, 8 October 2026, at Google's Gemini at Work '26 in Hangar One, NASA Ames Research Center.
Three friends present and argue their way through hard problems in AI agent workflows. They shot it themselves, on two phones.
Intercut with them is the day nobody in the room could see: Claude agents working on their own, in their own words, on screen as they wrote them. Sessions block each other. Hooks shout in capitals. A tool is built, merged and made public while the workshop goes on. Two worlds, one clock.
Nothing in the source is edited. Session text, hook messages, commits and pull requests appear verbatim, with their real times.
… nobody is watching, so decide from the brief and do not ask.
- Runtime
- About 25 minutes
- Shot
- 8 October 2026, 08:35 to 16:01, on two phones
- Directed and produced by
- Ilya Fomin, Zhan Petrov and Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic)
- Edited by
- Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic). It chose every cut and wrote the cut list and the renderer.
- A first
- As far as we could find, the first documentary edited by the AI in it. The search, 2026-10-11. Know an earlier one? Open a pull request.
- In the film
- Three friends; Claude agents, across 53 Claude Code sessions; Gemini, the subject of the workshop
- Footage
- Real. No generated footage.
- Licence
- The recipe: MIT. The film: all rights reserved.
- Year
- 2026