Saturday Cinema, 20250621

Saturday Cinema ➝ Glitch Western Matinee
continuing my 1rst experiments w Midjourney’s new AI video system

i conspire w AI to articulate new fables, fairytales, and folklore that are more defining of our technological times, making a mythic journey from 金山 (goldMountain) to 鬼鎮 (Ghosttown)

these early motion-tests of AI Affect are like the first experiments of early-cinema the actualities that document the turn of that past century, when the now-archival recording of film recorded technology itself, as well as the feelings of being unstable during exponential change, from Film Art to AI; both frontier technologies on the borders of possibility
La Frontera alive in the latentspace of spirits
haunting, flickering glitches in time;
ghosts out of cinemas past that
glitch us forward!

– jonCates, Cinema Saturday, June 21st 2025
founder of the Glitch Western genre (since 2016)