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: Establishing a New Field for Film, Philosophy, and Media
AI Cinematic Realism explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the very foundations of cinematic realism. From Kracauer and Bazin’s indexical image to today’s generative platforms like Sora, Runway, Gemini, and MidJourney, this article argues for a new interdisciplinary field bridging film studies, philosophy, ethics, and media practice. It calls for collaboration to understand realism in an era where the real and the synthetic intertwine.