The Infinite Protocol
The Grammar of Machine Cinema How agentic filmmaking enables cinema’s modernist moment I. Cinema used to be organized around scarcity of the image. Machine cinema is organize
Breaking the Caste System of Independent Cinema
On status, legitimacy, and the “demo” accusation in the age of machine-made film Independent cinema presents itself as a meritocracy. It is not. This is not a complaint; it is
Strings and the Live-Action Passing Threshold
Notes toward a new proof in The New Machine Cinema 1. The claim Cinema’s ontology is changing under our feet. Strings is the first photoreal AI feature film that crosses the live
The Pirate Cinema Manifesto
“Machine Cinema is a human right. You will not take our robots from us.” We steal history. We refuse permission. We affirm the machine. This is the battle standard for
The History of Special Effects is the History of Cinema
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema The earliest audiences paid to see things happen that could not happen: a rocket in the moon’s eye, a head that comes off a
Choose Your Protagonist: My Boyfriend is a Superhero!?
Announcing Jackson’s upcoming fully AI 3D animated romcom, My Boyfriend is a Superhero!? Expanding on “A Very Long Carriage Ride,” the groundbreaking proof of multifold machi
Surfing the Black Hole
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema The most important resource in post-scarcity will be scarcity. Just as films become malleable and multifaceted, so too
The Pinnacle Contact
The new cinema will move backward in time by moving forward. The cinema of the future will not be a static artifact but a living entity, changing with each viewing, shaped by its o
One Film, Two Ways: Presenting ‘A Very Long Carriage Ride’
Presenting ‘A Very Long Carriage Ride,’ heralding a new age of the malleable film. A film is no longer a film, a film is a series of possibilities. One day, films will
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
