One Film, Three Ways: AI and CG Animation
Choose Your Protagonist: A study of My Boyfriend is a Superhero!? *From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema* A Very Long Carriage Ride proved that style is a p
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
Animation After Labor
From Generative Animation: Volume 4 of The New Machine Cinema Animation after labor becomes an editorial art of selection, direction, and stabilization. The earlier arguments in th
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
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
The True Line Cut
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema AI lets cinema behave like sumi-e and jazz: a single, unbroken gesture where the film records the artist’s decisions in rea
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
