The Mirror
What the Auteurs Are Giving Away
Schrader, Aronofsky, and Lynch are embracing AI. What they are giving away is the claim that the work of depicting interiority requires interiority to generate.
The Mirror
What Restoration Destroys
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.
The Mirror
The Film That Couldn't Indict Its Subjects
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.