Post-Scarcity Cinema: Writings on AI Film Theory - The New Machine Cinema, #2

Post-Scarcity Cinema: Writings on AI Film Theory
(The New Machine Cinema, Vol. 2)

In 2025 Hooroo Jackson shattered precedent—again—by releasing A Very Long Carriage Ride, the first feature film ever launched in two completely different styles simultaneously, marking the first AI stop-motion animated feature film, and the first classic-style AI animated feature film ever made.

Post-Scarcity Cinema is the theoretical engine powering that leap. Picking up where the landmark volume The New Machine Cinema: Foundations in AI Film Theory left off, Jackson drills deeper into what filmmaking looks like when budgets, crews, and old-guard gatekeepers no longer define what is possible.

Across nine razor-sharp essays he maps the horizons of a cinema unchained:

Fusing practitioner grit with radical theory, Jackson argues that AI filmmaking is not a subgenre of cinema, it is a brand new artform surpassing the invention of the camera itself. Post-Scarcity Cinema is the field guide for directors, critics, and futurists ready to build where the old maps end.

? ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Hooroo Jackson is an American film director, screenwriter, editor, and film theorist responsible for multiple firsts in cinema history:

July '23: Window Seat, the first fully AI feature film in the history of cinema.

July '24: DreadClub: Vampire's Verdict, the first fully AI animated feature film and the first AI anime feature film.

December '24: The New Machine Cinema: Foundations in AI Film Theory.

May '25: A Very Long Carriage Ride, the first dual-release in cinema history; both the first AI stop motion animated feature film and the first AI classic animated feature film.

June '25: Post-Scarcity Cinema: Writings on AI Film Theory (The New Machine Cinema Volume 2)