The Infinite Protocol
The Grammar of Machine Cinema How agentic filmmaking enables cinema’s modernist moment I. Cinema used to be organized around scarcity of the image. Machine cinema is organize
Breaking the Caste System of Independent Cinema
On status, legitimacy, and the “demo” accusation in the age of machine-made film Independent cinema presents itself as a meritocracy. It is not. This is not a complaint; it is
Strings and the Live-Action Passing Threshold
Notes toward a new proof in The New Machine Cinema 1. The claim Cinema’s ontology is changing under our feet. Strings is the first photoreal AI feature film that crosses the live
Sketches of Neural Cinema
You will be able to record your dreams and turn them into cinema What starts as technology rarely gets read as art at first. That’s how new frontiers work: the scientific breakth
Hooroo Jackson Films — AI Cinema Founder, Editions, and Theory
Hooroo Jackson is an American film director, screenwriter, editor, and film theorist—founder of end-to-end AI feature cinema and AI animation in theory and practice. He is the di
The Pirate Cinema Manifesto
“Machine Cinema is a human right. You will not take our robots from us.” We steal history. We refuse permission. We affirm the machine. This is the battle standard for
Agentic Cinema: A Boy and His Robot
The future of cinema is a boy and his robot. As AI tests the limits of computing, allowing for deeper expression of machine proofs, we lift off from cinema as we know it into autom
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
