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
Agentic Cinema: A Boy and His Robot
The future of cinema is a boy and his robot. As AI tests the limits of computing, allowing for deeper expression of machine proofs, we lift off from cinema as we know it into autom
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
The Heaviest Machine
Foreword for Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays on AI Film Theory, Volume 2 of The New Machine Cinema There is no question here. The AI toolset will create an explosive outcome of the so
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
Mechanica-Surrealism
(From Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays in AI Film Theory, Volume 2 of the New Machine Cinema) Where Hooroo Jackson uncovers the emergence of a new AI avant-garde he calls, Mechanica-Su
Post-Aesthetic Cinema
(From “Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays in AI Film Theory” Volume 2 of The New Machine Cinema) Beyond even the Speed of the Mind, we uncover the neural-cinema emerging in the post-
The Pivot
(From “Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays in AI Film Theory” Volume 2 of The New Machine Cinema) The inevitable moment approaches when institutional resistance to AI filmmaki
Machine Pleasures
(Or, “The Infinite Performance”, from Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays in AI Film Theory, Volume 2 of the New Machine Cinema) Drawing parallels with Robert Bresson’s theo
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
