This slide deck and video guide introduce AI Cinematic Realism, a framework for understanding how synthetic images and films achieve cinematic meaning through perceptual, environmental, and authorial coherence rather than photographic capture. It marks cinema’s shift from recording reality to conjuring emotionally authentic experience through synthesis.
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.