Tag: generative AI

Against Gatekeepers: Orson Welles’ F for Fake in an Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence

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|Dan McCabe| “Maybe a man’s name doesn’t matter all that much,” Orson Welles says towards the end of F for Fake (1973) as he gazes upon Chartres Cathedral, which he describes as a great, unsigned masterpiece. F for Fake asks questions about the importance (or lack thereof)… Continue reading

Who Goes There?: The Thing, AI, and Isolation in the Digital Age

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|Riccardo Williams| John Carpenter’s The Thing, released in 1982, has since achieved the status of horror legend, in many ways eclipsing the book it’s based on, Who Goes There written by John W. Campbell Jr. There’s a strong argument to be made that it overtakes the previous adaptation… Continue reading