Animation After Labor
From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema Animation after labor becomes an editorial art of selection, direction, and stabilization. The earlier arguments in th
Post-Render Genesis: The Ontology of AI Animation
From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema AI animation is animation. That sentence should have been settled the moment the category emerged, yet it remains disp
The Preparatory Century is Over
From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema From McCay to Machine Before it became an industry, before it crystallized into departments and pipelines and armies o
An Interview with Hooroo Jackson (“Strings”)
From Mike Haberfelner, April 6th, 2026. Your new movie Strings – in a few words, what’s it about? Strings is the first fully AI photoreal feature film which cros
Notes on the Genesis Run
The 2023–2026 Cycle and the Case for Hooroo Jackson’s Founding Run in Generative Cinema Window Seat Premiere: July 21st, 2023 The first fully AI feature film The firs
The Infinite Protocol
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema The Grammar of Machine Cinema How agentic filmmaking enables cinema’s modernist moment I. Cinema used to be organized a
Breaking the Caste System of Independent Cinema
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema On status, legitimacy, and the “demo” accusation in the age of machine-made film Independent cinema presents itself as a
Strings and the Live-Action Passing Threshold
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema Notes toward a new proof in The New Machine Cinema 1. The claim Cinema’s ontology is changing under our feet. Strings is th
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 Director, Editions, and Theory
Hooroo Jackson is an American film director, screenwriter, editor, and film theorist—founder of end-to-end AI feature cinema and animation in theory and practice. He is the direc
