James “Art-Is-Human-Process” Church

Faux artist by day, chimney sweep by night.

[James “Art-Is-Human-Process” Church @kindermation]

JANUARY 2026 WATCHES

1st - ‘Wake Up Dead Man: Knives Out Mystery’
1st - ‘Death On The Nile’ (1978)
1st - ‘Evil Under The Sun’
2nd - ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ (+ Criterion features)
2nd - ‘The War Of The Worlds’ (+ Criterion features)
3rd - ‘The War Of The Worlds’ (+ Criterion commentary)

[James “Art-Is-Human-Process” Church @kindermation]

@mikethree Maybe it’s……all of it?

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@Alphons63 It’s almost like they shouldn’t be trying so hard to recreate what we already had naturally!

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@RealJDDuran We need not be sheepish, animation is cinema! LOUDLY!

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@For_Film_Fans It’s a rare combination of visually-plainspoken and super-reachwatchable.

[James “Art-Is-Human-Process” Church @kindermation]

@NextBestPicture @Beccamford Would LOVE it to be Wildwood, would shot a lot of confidence in its awards prospects.

[James “Art-Is-Human-Process” Church @kindermation]

AUGUST 2026 WATCHES (con’d)

1st - ‘Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma’
?th - ‘Kubo And The Two Strings’ (w/ features)
?th - ‘Kubo And The Two Strings’ (w/ commentary)

[James “Art-Is-Human-Process” Church @kindermation]

JANUARY 2026 WATCHES

1st - ‘Wake Up Dead Man: Knives Out Mystery’
1st - ‘Death On The Nile’ (1978)
1st - ‘Evil Under The Sun’
2nd - ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ (+ Criterion features)
2nd - ‘The War Of The Worlds’ (+ Criterion features)
3rd - ‘The War Of The Worlds’ (+ Criterion commentary)

[James “Art-Is-Human-Process” Church @kindermation]

AUGUST 2026 WATCHES (con’d)

1st - ‘The End Of Oak Street’
3rd - ‘Missing Link’ (w/ bonus features)
1st - ‘Allegro Non Troppo’
?th - ‘The Light’ (short film)
1st - ‘Almost Famous’
4th - ‘Missing Link’ (w/ commentary)
2nd - ‘Birth’ (w/ Criterion features)
1st - ‘Anchors Aweigh’

[James “Art-Is-Human-Process” Church @kindermation]

@promptaipodcast @SamJWasserman But is the development of GenAI truly equivalent to past media developments when THIS much human process is subtracted? Can GenAI qualify as a tool when that is the case?

[James “Art-Is-Human-Process” Church @kindermation]

@SamJWasserman Funny, because there are already filmmakers making ambitious work without waiting for a studio, large budget or permission.

But they’re learning crafts/disciplines and putting them into practice. There is something even more rebellious and exciting in that.

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@b1eachcream @mdmadeit Definitely not forced for most artists who are in favor of non-AI, human-crafted media. The crafts and disciplines that Gen AI produces facsimiles of are precious and incomparably fulfilling to take the time to learn. The value of the result is only as good as that of the process

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@slythwalker_28 I would add The Bride / Mother Mary / Her Private Hell / Project Hell Mary / In The Blink Of An Eye to that list!

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@edgerton_harvey Let’s choose hope!!

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@AKaun6899 Let me dream 😭

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@_natastrophe_ And even if those issues get fixed, this is just not how I want to make/see films anyway.

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@HollywoodHandle I’M HERE FOR THE WILDWOOD OPTIMISM

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@NextBestPicture YES!

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@Dani__oros Yes, everyone deserves transparency.

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@cedrichohnstadt I think “commercial art” still invariably involves human connection and human crafts, so I think the personal/commercial — AI/Non-AI correlation is a false equivalency.

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@taherdhanera 2/2

So many of us want to watch something — live-action, animated, hybrid, vfx-heavy work — secure in the knowledge that non-AI processes (i.e. completely human crafts) were employed *across the board*. The ease/speed of gen AI is not enough of a gain compared to what’s lost.

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@taherdhanera 1/2

As well thought out as this sentiment is, and as much of an appreciation for the craft of visual storytelling as it demonstrates, it’s not enough: