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Writing on craft, authorship,
and what the tools cannot do.
Everything here comes out of a real production or a real classroom. Where a claim has not been tested, it says so. Where something turned out to be wrong, that stays published too.
Long form
From this site
Pieces written here, in full, rather than summarised from elsewhere.
The 4Ds: deciding what to hand to a tool
Delegate, Describe, Discern, Diligence. Most advice about AI in filmmaking is organised around what the tools can do, which is the least durable thing about them. This is the question that survives the next release.
40 Years of Silence, taken apart
A feature documentary broken down stage by stage: the workflow, where an AI-assisted review pass genuinely helped, and the points at which it was deliberately kept out. Includes the ethics position in full.
What AI cannot do in filmmaking
Eighteen documented limitations across six clusters, gathered from practice rather than argument, with a 4Ds studio for deciding what to delegate. Runs as a live instrument rather than an essay.
The research programme
Doctoral work on film education reform at Bournemouth University, and the venture built as the research site rather than studied from the outside.
From Substack
Writing and thinking
Published at mostafanagy.substack.com — the latest articles are below.
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No schedule, no filler. Only when a tool ships, a claim gets tested, or something turns out to be wrong.