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
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 Heaviest Machine
Foreword for Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays on AI Film Theory, Volume 2 of The New Machine Cinema There is no question here. The AI toolset will create an explosive outcome of the so
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
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
