The Infinite Protocol
The Grammar of Machine Cinema How agentic filmmaking enables cinema’s modernist moment I. Cinema used to be organized around scarcity of the image. Machine cinema is organize
Strings and the Live-Action Passing Threshold
Notes toward a new proof in The New Machine Cinema 1. The claim Cinema’s ontology is changing under our feet. Strings is the first photoreal AI feature film that crosses the live
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 Future Audience Will Be Machines
(From Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays in AI Film Theory, Volume 2 of The New Machine Cinema) Exploring a post-audience future of cinema. In the future, everyone will be a filmmaker, n
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
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
One Person, One Film
(Essay from “The New Machine Cinema: Foundational Essays in AI Film Theory”) One Person, One Film: The Case for Pure AI Cinema “One man writes a novel. One man wr
