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The Pirate Cinema Manifesto
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema “Machine Cinema is a human right. You will not take our robots from us.” We steal history. We refuse permission.
Agentic Cinema: A Boy and His Robot
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema The future of cinema is a boy and his robot. As AI tests the limits of computing, allowing for deeper expression of machine p
The History of Special Effects is the History of Cinema
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema The earliest audiences paid to see things happen that could not happen: a rocket in the moon’s eye, a head that comes off a
The Coverage Block
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema Before directing my first feature film in 2014, a cinematographer gave me this simple advice: wide, medium, and close-up, and
Roguelike Cinema
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema A Case for Procedurally Generated Cinema, from Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema Contract: Ten half-hours. By the finale, th
The True Line Cut
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema AI lets cinema behave like sumi-e and jazz: a single, unbroken gesture where the film records the artist’s decisions in rea
Choose Your Protagonist: My Boyfriend is a Superhero!?
Announcing Jackson’s upcoming fully AI 3D animated romcom, My Boyfriend is a Superhero!? Expanding on “A Very Long Carriage Ride,” the groundbreaking proof of multifold machi
Surfing the Black Hole
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema The most important resource in post-scarcity will be scarcity. Just as films become malleable and multifaceted, so too
The Heaviest Machine
Foreword for Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays on AI Film Theory, Volume 2 of The New Machine Cinema There is no question here. The AI toolset will create an explosive outcome of the so
