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
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
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
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
