A Very Long Carriage Ride

Autumn Watt, an 18th-century aspiring socialite, discovers the dark secret of Meijor Donaldson—a powerful millionaire with a secret past—on the eve of his wedding. With the help of Hopkins Brandy, his disgraced former business partner, Autumn races to expose Meijor’s crimes, navigating magic, mistaken identities, and the unraveling of her own heart.

Hooroo Jackson’s A Very Long Carriage Ride is the first dual release in the history of cinema, in the process becoming the first fully AI-generated stop-motion animated feature film, and the first classic Disney style AI-generated 2D animated feature film ever made.

And like Jackson’s previous works, it was created entirely by one person. No crew. No studio. No compromise.

The $2,000 production proves the concept for Jackson’s AI film theory (“The New Machine Cinema: Foundations in AI Film Theory”), and his essay “The Living Breathing Cinema”—a framework where a film isn’t a fixed object, but a mutable experience. Here, audiences choose which version they want to see. Both are the same story, same performances, same vision—told through different aesthetic forms.

Jackson’s accompanying essay “One Film, Two Ways” explained his philosophy around the film. And while the stop-motion version might be the most technically ambitious AI animated feature film ever attempted, the 2D version radiates the timeless charm of a forgotten Disney classic. You’re not meant to pick one. You’re meant to watch both.

Following the first fully AI feature film ever made (Window Seat) and the first fully AI animated feature ever made (DreadClub), Carriage Ride pushes the medium of cinema by splitting the cinematic atom. This is not about AI making films faster or cheaper. It’s about opening cinema into new forms that were never possible before.

Trailer #1:

Protagonist Autumn Watt in both 2D and stop motion.