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.
Worldbuilding by Design in AI Cinematic Realism
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.