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Essays
Critical essays that look beyond the surface of films, music, art and media, reading contemporary works through imagination, memory, technology, industry and cultural power.
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Christopher Nolan explains the connection between The Odyssey and Oppenheimer: broken xenia, irreversible guilt and the limits of repentance.
Unveiled at Comic-Con, Star Trek’s 60th-anniversary video spans series and films, bringing the humanist future imagined by Roddenberry back to the center.
More than 22,000 moviegoers have traveled to Prague to see The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm, turning a film screening into a pilgrimage.
IndieWire talks about security and nostalgia. But mergers, streaming and AI reveal a much larger problem: audiences are losing their cultural rights.
OMNI Hyperphantasia awards Robert Gaudette among 3,800 AI films: with Alex Proyas on the jury, generative cinema is now a crowded ecosystem in search of selection.
Shortical raises $100 million, Instagram targets TV, Peacock tests ReelShort and India accelerates: all the data on the microdrama boom.
Cate Blanchett presents the Human Consent Registry: a free registry designed to protect faces, voices and identities from unauthorized use by AI.
Festivals, tools and independent creators are building their own supply chain around AI cinema, while the old industry protects control, rents and slow decision-making.
At the Shanghai Film Festival, AI Backlot, iPhone-shot shorts and VR show how China is turning cinema into pure technological production.
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