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
Agentic Cinema: A Boy and His Robot
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema The future of cinema is a boy and his robot. As AI tests the limits of computing, allowing for deeper expression of machine p
The History of Special Effects is the History of Cinema
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema The earliest audiences paid to see things happen that could not happen: a rocket in the moon’s eye, a head that comes off a
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
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
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-

