Style as Variable: A Very Long Carriage Ride
From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema The Living, Breathing Cinema proposed that a film could survive translation across multiple valid forms while retainin
Grotesque Pleasures
(From Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays in AI Film Theory, Volume 2 of the New Machine Cinema) What happens when optimization leads to something humans find repulsive, but the machine d
Speed of the Mind
(Essay from “The New Machine Cinema: Foundational Essays in AI Film Theory”) The nature of AI filmmaking is too explosive to bottle up, but early in the space, we are a
