Hooroo Jackson is an American filmmaker from Baltimore. Born December 3rd, 1985 to Iranian immigrant parents, his father was a math prodigy and his mother was a painter. Hooroo began as a wunderkind editor, winning a national C-SPAN competition for filmmaking in 2003. In 2014, he was covered in the Wall Street Journal as an early proponent for Bitcoin, having bought in at the average price of ten dollars per coin, and using them to finance his first feature.

Aimy in a Cage was released in 2015, starring Allisyn Ashley Arm, Crispin Glover, and Paz de la Heurta, a film he called a millennial treatise: "Aimy is the deconstruction of a cartoon character in live action. It is meant to show the real pain and hurt that would exist inside a Bugs Bunny or Pee-Wee Herman." The film was a cinematic fusion of styles, moods and influences; "It is my postmodern Antoine Doinel via Philip K Dick. The theme of collapse, government overreach, familial breakdown, all were alien to the culture when I made the film, now in the age of information warfare are par for the course. Societal strife was in my blood." Aimy in a Cage won him the Director's Prize in the 2015 Portland Film Festival where the film's color and style drew comparisons to auteurs like Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, and David Lynch.

On July 21, 2023, Hooroo released the first AI feature film ever made, "Window Seat". At 61 minutes and a budget of $100, it represented a milestone in filmmaking with its video and performances entirely machine generated, and a hope for a new artistic independent film movement.

"My influences ranged from Monty Python to Adult Swim, low-fi animation that embraced limitation. As well, the silent film masters figured all this out a century ago, despite having far less to go on. When you are utilizing film craft, absolutely any idea you have will work. So there was no idea I had in "Window Seat", that I could not cheat or pull off through visual trickery."

Meticulously crafted from over 4,000 videos, with dialogue spliced together one line at a time, the machine generated movie quickly faced backlash: "I immediately faced a harassment campaign. But you cannot separate Window from being the first AI movie, there is a subtext in every scene, and this is not an early Walt Disney experimentation bringing a message of hope, it's the kind of hard indie we only saw in the 90s, giving rise to people like Aronofsky, Mamet, or LaBute. To have that today is only possible through AI, it is the long awaited solution to the tragedy of the commons."

Hooroo made history again on July 3, 2024, premiering the first AI animated feature film ever made, "DreadClub: Vampire's Verdict", a 2D animated film in the anime style. DreadClub was a milestone in cinema in three ways: it was the first fully AI animated feature film, the first AI anime, and the first feature film with 100 % of its sound, music, video, and performances AI generated (sound and music were not available at the time of 'Window Seat'). The film brought in the best reviews of his career, and fulfilled a longstanding dream to make animated films, but the blowback was immediate.

Upon its release, Hooroo was getting between 5-10 hate messages a day. During one single day, the film was blocked on both TMDB by anti-AI moderators, and on reddit, by pro-AI moderators, who denied the accomplishment of the film. "TMDB claimed the film needed to play on both a major streaming platform, and play in a film festival to qualify for their site; I pointed them to two major streaming platforms, as well as a prestigious film festival in Venice Italy; not living up to their own standards, they merely stopped replying."

All production drama was meticulously documented in the book, Artificial Imagination: The Making of "DreadClub"; knowing people would deny the reality of the film, which happened almost immediately, he documented every single moment of the making of the film, including the chaotic aftermath.