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
Style as Variable: A Very Long Carriage Ride
From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema The Living, Breathing Cinema proposed that a film could survive translation across multiple valid forms while retainin
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
Strings and the Live-Action Passing Threshold
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema Notes toward a new proof in The New Machine Cinema 1. The claim Cinema’s ontology is changing under our feet. Strings is th
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
