AI Cinematic Realism (AICR) proposes a new framework for the post-camera era, shifting cinema's guiding question from "Is this real?" to "Is this true?" Grounded in embodied cognition and a lineage of realist movements, AICR defines synthetic truth through the Ideational Frame, Three-Strata Model, and accountable authorship.
From Lebenswelt to Emotional Plausibility: A Research Arc Toward AI Cinematic Realism
This article traces a research arc from analogue investigations of the Lebenswelt to the emergence of AI Cinematic Realism. It shows how Kracauerian tropes migrate across media, shifting realism from indexical redemption of physical reality to synthetic emotional plausibility while preserving phenomenology as the core method and evaluative standard.