Need a new Franklin's Lost Expedition-level story to get me through the winter smh

The developers may spin this as a remediation of Méliès’s trick techniques. But generative AI doesn’t amaze audiences anymore. Its novelty has worn off within 3 years of mainstreaming.

Themed photo booths with sepia filters existed before AI, in theme parks or shopping malls and in conjunction with the subject using props and costumes. But putting an AI booth in the Cinémathèque is, by all appearances, a mistake. Patrons do not want AI mingling with cinema/Langlois in this way.

“As a “digital flâneuse” in London, the fear of getting lost prevented me from really wandering around as Benjamin’s flâneur might have done or how Thomas did in 1966. I was consistently distracted by looking at my screen to determine my location.”

“I wanted to convey for the viewer the haptic sensation of zooming in on pixelated, low-resolution images. My desktop functions as a kind of first-person “camera” – ironically remediating Thomas’s profession (and even Astruc’s vision of a “camera-pen”).”