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
The Coverage Block
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema Before directing my first feature film in 2014, a cinematographer gave me this simple advice: wide, medium, and close-up, and
Surfing the Black Hole
From Pirate Cinema: Volume 3 of the New Machine Cinema The most important resource in post-scarcity will be scarcity. Just as films become malleable and multifaceted, so too
The New Machine Cinema
(Essay from “The New Machine Cinema: Foundational Essays in AI Film Theory”) The revolution will not be filmed–it will be dreamed directly onto the screen. Machine fi
