LA JETEE also plays with that notion of "moving images", eh? (I wonder
how investors/distributors react to a film that is largely "non-moving")
What I've been keen on is the fact, however, that film is not just what is
wound or unwound to and from tin cans and onto recording/viewing
apparatus, etc.
Film is also Event.
This is the crux, for example, of the original posts about Baghdad; albeit
video, not celluloid: the use of such media in such-and-such an event,
or to create susch-and-such an event.
[In comparing two films released the same week, PULP FICTION and BLUE
SKIES, the latter was not an Event (I.E., Travolta's comeback) and fell
through the floor, though an excellent film. But there are many kinds of
events, as we intend to explore further at our website, SCREENING AS EVENT
Comments welcome.]
A film screened in an empty auditorium is a screening, but not a showing.
Gary G. Gach 1.415.771.77.93
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