Cinema Only Matters If It Moves Something
Why the future of cinema is about what gets felt enough to spread and why theatrical isn’t a delivery slot but a signal ignition system.
Welcome to the final chapter of System Studies: Cinema, a four-part Strange Loop series expanding on my CineEurope 2025 keynote, “The Enemy Isn’t AI or Streaming — It’s Holding On To Attention.”
So far, we’ve covered the collapse:
Part 1: The story broke — not the format
Part 2: The moats eroded — and something stranger was revealed underneath
