This paper draws on
the acknowledgement of the specific existence of cinema and of the
ineluctability of the presence of AI in the various domains regarding the
making, the circulation and the reception of movies. It aims to depict the way
this particular mix of art and industry that still deserves to be called cinema
is likely to evolve, considering similar situations it encountered previously.
It underlines how the very nature of AI leads to define more precisely, and
with more strength, cinema’s own characteristics and potentialities in a deeply
changing media, artistic and social environment where films have and will have
a place, and a role to play.
