This article examines the shift from discovering "found" locations to authoring latent geographies. By tracing environmental control from Titanic’s realism to Caligari’s expressionism, it demonstrates how AI filmmakers can design non-Euclidean spaces where physical laws are dictated by narrative theme rather than physics.
Beyond the Frame: AI Cinematic Realism as Ethical Genre
What makes an AI-generated image feel real? This essay introduces AI Cinematic Realism as a genre of ethical authorship—where realism is judged not by polish, but by emotional plausibility, ontological stakes, and accountable agency. It’s not a style to imitate, but a genre to invent.