The Ise Shrine Model: AI Cinema as Ceremony
From Volume 5 of the New Machine Cinema For thirteen hundred years, the Ise Grand Shrine in Japan has been torn down and rebuilt every twenty years. Same design. New wood. The cypr
God’s Eye
From Volume 5 of the New Machine Cinema Film is not a medium for the Mona Lisa. The medium is transient, not permanent. Not an object. It is the very artform of memory. You should
Three Proofs in Generative Animation
From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema The three first features in generative animation constitute a system. DreadClub: Vampire’s Verdict proved that A
The Synthetic Anime
A study of anime, AI and DreadClub: Vampire’s Verdict From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema Anime was waiting for AI before most people realized it. AI an
One Film, Three Ways: AI and CG Animation
Choose Your Protagonist: A study of My Boyfriend is a Superhero!? *From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema* A Very Long Carriage Ride proved that style is a p
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
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
