The Pirate Cinema Manifesto
“Machine Cinema is a human right. You will not take our robots from us.” We steal history. We refuse permission. We affirm the machine. This is the battle standard for
Agentic Cinema: A Boy and His Robot
The future of cinema is a boy and his robot. As AI tests the limits of computing, allowing for deeper expression of machine proofs, we lift off from cinema as we know it into autom
Roguelike Cinema
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema A Case for Procedurally Generated Cinema, from Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema Contract: Ten half-hours. By the finale, th
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
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
The AI Restoration of ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’
(From “Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays in AI Film Theory” Volume 2 of The New Machine Cinema) Hooroo Jackson presents the ultimate concept for AI cinema restoration, the most famo
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 Automated Film
(An Essay from “The New Machine Cinema: Foundational Essays in AI Film Theory”) The automated film is what everyone thinks they are talking about when they speak against AI. I
