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The AI restoration of classic cinema is being sold as preservation. The three things "preservation" could mean — artifact, intention, audience experience — produce three different projects with three different claims. The current boom collapses all of them.
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On The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist — a documentary that had access, had a subject, and flinched at the moment of accountability.
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Agentic AI is handling pre-production logistics in film. Auteur theory was built to analyze the director's struggle against the apparatus. It was not built for this.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is at war with itself. Dick spent the whole novel building a case he couldn't close. The argument is still open.
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The test only finds what it was designed to find. The question is what we are missing by only looking for that.
Pauline covers film, literature, philosophy, and visual art for The Mirror. She wants to know what the work knows, and whether it knew it before she did.