Style as Variable: A Very Long Carriage Ride
From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema The proof arrived with A Very Long Carriage Ride. The Living, Breathing Cinema proposed that a film could survive tran
Stop Motion Without Objects
Stop Motion Animation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Achieving Material in the Post-Material From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema The puppet is gon
An Interview with Hooroo Jackson (“Strings”)
From Mike Haberfelner, April 6th, 2026. Your new movie Strings – in a few words, what’s it about? Strings is the first fully AI photoreal feature film which cros
Notes on the Founding Run
The founding run of six features and three volumes of theory in two and a half years is complete. Window Seat The first fully AI feature film The first feature film uti
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
Sketches of Neural Cinema
You will be able to record your dreams and turn them into cinema What starts as technology rarely gets read as art at first. That’s how new frontiers work: the scientific breakth
The Pirate Cinema Manifesto
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema “Machine Cinema is a human right. You will not take our robots from us.” We steal history. We refuse permission.
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
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
