This paper introduces "hyper-auteur cinema" to theorize an emergent form shaped by generative AI and solo production

identifying the "hyper-auteur" as its authorial figure. Against auteur theory's evolution—from French New Wave origins to American systematization and subsequent critiques—the rise of AI tools enabling single-individual filmmaking necessitates rethinking authorship. Hyper-auteur cinema is neither an extension of traditional auteurism nor a concession to human-machine collaboration

but a qualitative transformation under one-person

full-process production. Drawing on practice-based research

the paper argues that the hyper-auteur functions as creative originator

system designer

and process controller. This framework complicates Barthes's "death of the author" and Foucault's "author function

" extending these paradigms into AI-generated cinema. By situating the hyper-auteur within auteur theory's trajectory

the paper offers renewed vocabulary for authorship in the age of solo AI filmmaking.