The Moment a Film Becomes Real
“The Spartans are at the walls of Troy.”
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VFX Is Destroying Its Own Foundations
The VFX industry watched computers become affordable, software become accessible, and training become available almost everywhere.
What Can Still Be Imagined
There is a persistent tendency to talk about creativity in filmmaking as if it existed in a space of relative freedom, as if ideas could emerge first and only later be confronted with the realities of production.
Warner Bros. Discovery May Have Found Hollywood’s Real AI Disruption
The most consequential machine may not be the one making the film.
We Have Seen This Before
The first mistake is believing the miracle.
Faster, Cheaper, Better Was Never Neutral
Nobody objects when the sentence enters the room.
The Film Ecosystem That Became Its Own Market
Film industries like to describe themselves as ecosystems, and the metaphor is useful because film has always depended on density.
The Film Industry Copies the Survivors
The mainstream film industry is not nearly as innovative as it claims.
What a New Super 16 Camera Taught Me About Virtual Production
A few days ago, I read about the Cinelux SIXTEEN, a new Super 16 camera concept that exposes real film while also providing a digital image for monitoring, proxies, metadata and contemporary workflow use.
Ben Affleck Is Right About AI. That Is the Problem.
“AI can write you excellent imitative verse,” Ben Affleck said, “but it cannot write you Shakespeare.” It is a good sentence because it refuses two bad answers at once.
The Two Spider Noirs
The Color Version Is The Real Mystery
The Strange Shame of VFX
How modern cinema came to depend on a craft it still publicly treats as contamination
When Decisions Become Real
Film production is often described as a chain of decisions, and that is true as far as it goes.
The Same Film for Less Money Does Not Exist
There is a comforting idea that moves quietly through our industry, repeated so often that it begins to feel like common sense.
Kane Parsons, AI and the Emotional Life of Tools
Kane Parsons is not in the news because he said something predictable about AI.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S BFI SPEECH IS NOT ABOUT AI.
IT IS ABOUT HOLLYWOOD.
The Vision Is a Production Tool
In film, people often speak about vision as if it were something mysterious.