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 Founding Run
The founding run of six features and three volumes of theory in two and a half years is complete. Window Seat The first fully AI feature film The first feature film uti
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 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
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
