Three Proofs in Generative Animation
From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema The three first features in generative animation constitute a system. DreadClub: Vampire’s Verdict proved that A
Animation After Labor
From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema Animation after labor becomes an editorial art of selection, direction, and stabilization. The earlier arguments in th
Post-Render Genesis: The Ontology of AI Animation
From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema AI animation is animation. That sentence should have been settled the moment the category emerged, yet it remains disp
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 Pirate Cinema Manifesto
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema “Machine Cinema is a human right. You will not take our robots from us.” We steal history. We refuse permission.
Surfing the Black Hole
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema The most important resource in post-scarcity will be scarcity. Just as films become malleable and multifaceted, so too
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
