angelica fenner writes:
*I was originally seeking films with a kind of
pan-optical vision, encompassing several continents and offering a kind
of space-time compression (to use Harvey's term).*
i wonder if this highlights the 'silver' fog which broadcast (tv,
cinema, radio) and unicast (letters, email, www rich media) get muddled
in?
one ought to distinguish between 'global' and 'translocal', as such the
'pan-optic, emcompassing compression' which harvey and angelica choose
to describe what angelica calls 'global vision' is a far cry from, say,
a new noo.vision, or what is occurring against the odds in
post-cinematic experiments on-line, not a compressed collection but a
loose communion, which is diametrical to global vision, and is termed by
those who get beyond the gravity of the global, as translocal.
research to clarify the confusion between global and translocal vision
in (post)cinema would be more worthwhile. otherwise the powers-that-be,
'embedding' media into ideology will continue to make a farce of fiction
that approaches yet another category of melodrama. i am reminded
tongue-in-cheek of the old ami soap 'as the wrold turns' and its mad
magazine spin-off 'as the stomach turns'. ok, time to eat.
philip pocock
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