The Ise Shrine Model: AI Cinema as Ceremony
From Volume 5 of the New Machine Cinema For thirteen hundred years, the Ise Grand Shrine in Japan has been torn down and rebuilt every twenty years. Same design. New wood. The cypr
God’s Eye
From Volume 5 of the New Machine Cinema Film is not a medium for the Mona Lisa. The medium is transient, not permanent. Not an object. It is the very artform of memory. You should
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
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
Hooroo Jackson Films — AI Cinema Director, Editions, and Theory
Hooroo Jackson is an American film director, screenwriter, editor, and film theorist—founder of end-to-end AI feature cinema and animation in theory and practice. He is the direc
