Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays on AI Film Theory (Volume 2 of the New Machine Cinema)
Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays on AI Film Theory
(The New Machine Cinema, Vol. 2)
In 2025 Hooroo Jackson shattered precedent—again—by releasing A Very Long Carriage Ride, the first feature film ever launched in two completely different styles simultaneously, marking the first AI stop-motion animated feature film, and the first classic-style AI animated feature film ever made.
Post-Scarcity Cinema is the theoretical engine powering that leap. Picking up where the landmark volume The New Machine Cinema: Foundations in AI Film Theory left off, Jackson drills deeper into what filmmaking looks like when budgets, crews, and old-guard gatekeepers no longer define what is possible.
Across nine razor-sharp essays he maps the horizons of a cinema unchained:
- Machine Pleasures
- The Pivot
- Post-Aesthetic Cinema
- Mechanica-Surrealism
- The AI Restoration of ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’
- The Future Audience Will Be Machines
- Grotesque Pleasures
- One Film, Two Ways: Introducing ‘A Very Long Carriage Ride’
- The Pinnacle Contact
Fusing practitioner grit with radical theory, Jackson argues that AI filmmaking is not a subgenre of cinema, it is a brand new artform surpassing the invention of the camera itself. Post-Scarcity Cinema is the field guide for directors, critics, and futurists ready to build where the old maps end.
🎬 The New Machine Cinema
Volume 1: Foundations in AI Film Theory
Volume 2: Post-Scarcity Cinema
Volume 4: Generative Animation
🎬 Archive Editions
The Making of ‘DreadClub: Vampire’s Verdict’: The Production Journals (Abridged)
The Making of ‘A Very Long Carriage Ride’: The Production Journals (Abridged)
Date:
May 7, 2026
