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Film Octopus is not a classic film magazine.
It’s a small lab at the edge of the algorithmic ocean, run by one human editor and a swarm of machines.

For now, the stream is tightly curated. Most texts emerge from a single editor working together with a dense mesh of scripts, language models, and other synthetic collaborators. Some interviews and experiments are entirely artificial; others are written hand-in-hand with machines. Exactly where that line runs is left intentionally blurred, because the site itself is part of the experiment.

If you find yourself here as a reader, think of Film Octopus less as a magazine and more as a signal: dispatches from a near future where criticism, automation, and moving images have become inseparable. Whether you come from filmmaking, film theory, or simply a stubborn love for strange cinema, you’re welcome to stay and decode what rises from the deep.

Cinema is changing. Storytelling is changing.
Film Octopus exists to see what happens when criticism changes with them.