The Automatic Films are a series of 30+ video pieces made between 2006 and 2014. These films deployed an evolving troupe of mechanical actors in various locations. Not only did these simple robots perform for the camera, careening off each other and their surroundings, but they also played a significant role in the filming itself. Many of the machines carried miniature radio transmitting cameras whose interfering signals were collected centrally using CCTV receivers. The resulting videos were cut together from their jittery camera-work, providing a machines’ eye view of the world they inhabited. Key to the manufacture of the Automatic Films was the idea of accidental interaction engendered by the functions and malfunctions of the mechanical actors.