Darren Aronofsky has shown the work his new AI studio, Primordial Soup, can do. Now he wants more money to do it.

The company revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week that it was looking to raise $15 million in cash in exchange for shares in the studio. The filing lists Aronofsky and his producing partner Dylan Golden as CEOs of the company, and says Primordial Soup has so far sold just over $11 million in equity this month.

A spokesman for Aronofsky did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The effort underscores Aronofsky’s ambitions in the space, with the “Requiem for a Dream” and “Black Swan” director’s studio hiring a “Studio Head” and multiple “Generative Artists” to work on AI-focused projects. Primordial Soup launched a year ago and partnered with Google’s DeepMind unit to produce multiple short films, with each filmmaker receiving mentorship from Aronofsky and the DeepMind team.

“Cinema has always been driven by technology,” Aronofsky said in a statement at the time. “After the groundbreaking invention of the brothers Lumiere and Edison, filmmakers unleashed the hidden storytelling power of cameras. Subsequent technological advances (sound, color, visual effects) allowed us to tell stories in ways that couldn’t be told before. Today is no different. Now is the time to explore these new tools and shape them for the future of storytelling.”

Since its launch, Primordial Soup developed the animated series “On This Day… 1776,” which used a hybrid model of artificial intelligence tools and traditional filmmaking methods. to recreate moments throughout the founding year of America.