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
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
The Future Audience Will Be Machines
(From Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays in AI Film Theory, Volume 2 of The New Machine Cinema) Exploring a post-audience future of cinema. In the future, everyone will be a filmmaker, n
The AI Restoration of ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’
(From “Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays in AI Film Theory” Volume 2 of The New Machine Cinema) Hooroo Jackson presents the ultimate concept for AI cinema restoration, the most famo
The New Machine Cinema
(Essay from “The New Machine Cinema: Foundational Essays in AI Film Theory”) The revolution will not be filmed–it will be dreamed directly onto the screen. Machine fi
