I am sorry that this discussion has turned into a discussion of
aesthetic values of films.
But to return to the beginning of this thread and to questions of the
medium of film I want to offer the very helpful distinction by Gilbert
Cohen-Séat,one of the founders of filmologie (films studies) and film
philosophy in the 1940s.
Gilbert Cohen-Séat distinguishes between the "faits filmique", which
concerns the material basis and the ontology of film and its signs,
and the "faits cinématopraphique", which concerns the culture, the
reception and the economy of films and the institution of cinema.
It is helpful because some ontological problems concerning films (for
example the status of the digital) can be solved when applied ot the
faits cinématographique, as the faits cinématografique (the facts of
cinema) are more open to change.
Herbert
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