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 director of the first AI feature film (‘Window Seat’), AI animated feature film (‘DreadClub: Vampire’s Verdict’), stop motion (‘A Very Long Carriage Ride’), CG animation (‘My Boyfriend is a Superhero!?’), and photoreal live action passing AI feature film (‘Strings’), pioneering innovations including the first simultaneous dual-format release and the first choose-your-protagonist film, all made solo on three-figure budgets. He published the four earliest volumes of AI film theory defining the foundational terms: “One Person, One Film,” “Speed of the Mind,” “The Living, Breathing Cinema,” “The Adaptive Cinema Engine,” and “The True Line Cut”.. His work spans solo AI features, animation milestones, and a written framework for generative, post‑scarcity filmmaking under The New Machine Cinema. This page is the official guide for canonical editions, watch links, and reference notes.
Jackson’s ensemble of recurring machine actors constitutes the first machine acting repertory company, with actors Nellie, Joan, and Rogers representing the first persistent AI machine movie stars in history. For bios, photos, and filmographies of the actors, click here.
Feature films
Aimy in a Cage (2015)
A teenage delinquent orphan rebels against her evil family during a global virus outbreak.
Starring Allisyn Snyder, Crispin Glover, Paz de la Huerta, and Academy Award Nominee Terry Moore.
Window Seat (61 min, 2023)
Premiere: July 21st, 2023. The first AI feature film in cinema history. A man unexpectedly encounters his high school bully aboard a plane. Thrust into a high-stakes battle of wits, can he outmaneuver his former tormentor, or will history repeat itself once more?
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DreadClub: Vampire’s Verdict (2024)
Premiere: July 3rd, 2024. The first completely AI animated feature film in history; the first AI anime feature film. Betty Gray, a college student obsessed with gothic romances, finds herself living one when she falls for Duchamps De Ve–a man on trial for being a vampire.
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Wikipedia
The Making Of DreadClub
A Very Long Carriage Ride (2025) — Dual-format feature
Premiere: April 22nd, 2025. The first dual release in cinema history. The first AI stop motion animated feature film. The first AI classic animated feature film. An aspiring socialite teams up with the town drunk on a journey to expose a scoundrel at his own wedding, navigating magical interference, mistaken identities, and her own conflicted heart.
The Making Of A Very Long Carriage Ride
A Very Long Carriage Ride OST
One Film, Two Ways (essay)
My Boyfriend is a Superhero!? (2025) — “Choose Your Protagonist”
Premiere: November 23rd, 2025. The first fully AI 3D CG-animated feature film. The first choose-your-protagonist release in cinema history. The first use of agentic AI editing in a feature film, and the first AI feature film to breach the live action threshold. When a billionaire’s secretary uncovers her boss is secretly a vigilante superhero, she is thrust into a high-stakes battle of secret identities, corporate intrigue, and an AI bent on taking control.
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My Boyfriend is a Superhero!? – Abigail A
My Boyfriend is a Superhero!? – Abigail B
My Boyfriend is a Superhero OST
Choose Your Protagonist (essay)
The New Machine Cinema (2025) — Two canonical editions
Premiere: December 18th, 2025.
A cinematic manifesto collecting Hooroo Jackson’s groundbreaking essays on AI film theory, vividly brought to life through a tantalizing journey of light, color, and sound, exploring the birth of the new machine cinema.
Audiovisual Edition / Cinema Cut (60 min)
Essay Edition / Foundations (74 min)
STRINGS (2026)
Premiere: February 28th, 2026
Strings is the first completely AI photoreal live-action passing feature film in the history of cinema, and the first film ever released with a randomized ending. The film follows four sisters in the antebellum South at the turn of the century, centuring on an interracial romance between puppeteers Nellie Beaufort and Daniel Brock.
LUCKY STARS (2026)
Hooroo Jackson’s eighth film is a fully AI-generated space opera romance and the first film in history with ten different endings. Princess Mora escapes the rigid life of the crown by stowing away on a starcruiser piloted by Darin O’Joy—a charming rebel with secrets of his own. As they race across moonlit worlds and evade a relentless bounty hunter, Mora must decide: can she trust Darin with the truth of who she is—and with her heart?
Shorts and companion works
- The Pirate Cinema Manifesto: https://youtu.be/QWn3TFCSLLo
- Machine Mind: https://youtu.be/n3gmFQKqOaU
- Hooroo Play: https://youtu.be/z5KdujKxtVE
AI FILM theory
Core texts associated with The New Machine Cinema framework:
- (Vol. 1) The New Machine Cinema: Foundational Essays in AI Film Theory (2024)
- (Vol. 2) Post‑Scarcity Cinema: Essays on AI Film Theory (2025)
- (Vol. 3) Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema (2026)
- (Vol. 4) Generative Animation: Volume 4 of the New Machine Cinema (2026)
- The Making of DreadClub (abridged production journals)
- The Making of A Very Long Carriage Ride (abridged production journals)
- The Pirate Cinema Manifesto
- Blog / Writings
- A useful external reference discussing early AI cinema/animation context:
BFI Sight & Sound feature
the hooroo jackson, new machine cinema archive
- 75,000+ original production prompts, dated and organized by film.
- The original MacBook preserved with the full production timeline for Window Seat and DreadClub: Vampire’s Verdict, with work dated from A Very Long Carriage Ride, and My Boyfriend is a Superhero!?
- Complete production budgets and financial documentation for all films.
- 100+ hours of direct screen recordings for A Very Long Carriage Ride and onward for every subsequent film
- The complete unabridged production journals from DreadClub: Vampire’s Verdict and every subsequent film.
- The New Machine Cinema Theory Volumes drafts and notations
- Apple Notes archive of complete story, production, and screenplay notes.
- Full early correspondences, press releases, reviews, interviews and press coverage
- Aimy Micry: The Graphic Novel complete raw manuscripts, and Jackson’s complete early volumes of comics.
- Aimy in a Cage: Complete Production Archive, Hard Drives, Financials, and Props.
AI CINEMA & AI ANIMATION SERVICES
HoorooJackson.com/services for consulting, lectures, workshops, and advisory work in AI cinema, AI animation, machine performance, adaptive storytelling, and one-person feature production. His consulting focuses on long-form AI filmmaking, AI animation workflows, synthetic performance, New Machine Cinema theory, archive/provenance strategy, and the practical transition from AI moving images to authored cinema. For consultation, Q&A, research, and guest lectures, contact: [email protected]
