Notes on the Founding Run
The founding run of six features and three volumes of theory in two and a half years is complete. Window Seat The first fully AI feature film The first feature film uti
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
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
One Film, Two Ways: Presenting ‘A Very Long Carriage Ride’
Presenting ‘A Very Long Carriage Ride,’ heralding a new age of the malleable film. A film is no longer a film, a film is a series of possibilities. One day, films will
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
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
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
