Is cinema dead?

New tools are giving us new ways to tell and experience stories, and I wonder what the future of cinema might look like. Hopefully, it's a future where more people can tell their own stories. Where those stories are shared, valued, and maybe even help us reimagine the world around us.

My research with Prof. Maneesh Agrawala aims to nudge cinema in this direction, ever so slightly. More broadly, I'm interested in creating spaces where the worlds of technology and film can meet and discuss these things.

Previous research work

ScriptViz: A Visualization Tool to Aid Scriptwriting based on a Large Movie Database

Anyi Rao, Jean-Peïc Chou, Maneesh Agrawala

UIST 2024

[paper] [project] [arxiv]
Talestream: Supporting story ideation with trope knowledge

Jean-Peïc Chou, Alexa Siu, Nedim Lipka, Ryan Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Maneesh Agrawala

UIST 2023

[paper] [project]
Computational tracking of head pose through 500 years of fine-art portraiture

Jean-Peïc Chou, David Stork

CVAA 2023

[paper]
Structures in Tropes Networks: Toward a Formal Story Grammar

Jean-Peïc Chou, Marc Christie

ICCC 2021

[paper]