What must a synthetic image achieve to behave like cinema? AI Cinematic Realism (AICR), presented whole for working AI filmmakers: the Ideational Frame, the three strata, a century of craft translated into the latent space, conscious assembly, the maker as moral agent, and the forty-point rubric.
AI Cinematic Realism (Second Edition): A Reader’s Map to the Book
AI Cinematic Realism reframes synthetic video beyond “looks real” or “deepfake” anxiety, asking instead whether an AI image feels true: coherent, intentional, ethical, and emotionally plausible. This reader’s map condenses the book’s framework, craft grammar, rubric, and pedagogy into a practical guide for makers, critics, and educators.
Intentional Seeing: AI Cinematic Realism as a Pedagogy for the Post-Camera Era
AI Cinematic Realism began as a way to evaluate synthetic cinema. But its three strata describe something larger: a pedagogy of intentional seeing that trains the very faculties — attention, coherence, and authorship — that generative AI puts at risk of atrophy.