Style as Variable: A Very Long Carriage Ride
From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema The proof arrived with A Very Long Carriage Ride. The Living, Breathing Cinema proposed that a film could survive tran
Stop Motion Without Objects
Stop Motion Animation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Achieving Material in the Post-Material From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema The puppet is gon
Post-Render Genesis: The Ontology of AI Animation
From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema AI animation is animation. That sentence should have been settled the moment the category emerged, yet it remains disp
An Interview with Hooroo Jackson (“Strings”)
From Mike Haberfelner, April 6th, 2026. Your new movie Strings – in a few words, what’s it about? Strings is the first fully AI photoreal feature film which cros
The Infinite Protocol
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema The Grammar of Machine Cinema How agentic filmmaking enables cinema’s modernist moment I. Cinema used to be organized a
Sketches of Neural Cinema
You will be able to record your dreams and turn them into cinema What starts as technology rarely gets read as art at first. That’s how new frontiers work: the scientific breakth
The Pirate Cinema Manifesto
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema “Machine Cinema is a human right. You will not take our robots from us.” We steal history. We refuse permission.
Agentic Cinema: A Boy and His Robot
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema The future of cinema is a boy and his robot. As AI tests the limits of computing, allowing for deeper expression of machine p
The Coverage Block
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema Before directing my first feature film in 2014, a cinematographer gave me this simple advice: wide, medium, and close-up, and
Roguelike Cinema
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema A Case for Procedurally Generated Cinema, from Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema Contract: Ten half-hours. By the finale, th
