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
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
The Moral Argument
(An Essay from “The New Machine Cinema: Foundational Essays in AI Film Theory”) The supposed moral crisis around AI cinema reveals itself not in reasoned debate but in
The Living, Breathing Cinema
(An Essay from “The New Machine Cinema: Foundational Essays in AI Film Theory”) I truly believe we are moving into a world where audiences are no longer able to weaponi
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
