[Frameworks] Quo Vadis Celluloid?
marilyn brakhage
vams at shaw.ca
Sat Aug 20 01:08:35 CDT 2011
YES!
Marilyn Brakhage
On 19-Aug-11, at 10:07 PM, Tim Halloran wrote:
> There is a significant difference in the physiological (and
> consequent psychological) responses to viewing projected film as
> opposed to viewing digital projection. The variances in individual
> photochemical frames of projected film require significantly
> different types of bodily and cognitive functions to process. Simply
> put, the human body and mind respond much differently to analog and
> digital information.
>
> This is not mysticism, nor fetishism. It is scientific fact and
> identifying it is part of a desire to preserve a unique type of
> human experience. This is why I get so upset with people who talk
> only of preserving analog film as a capture medium. An equally
> tragic transformation is occuring in the theaters with the
> conversion over to digital projection--even if it is shot on film,
> digital projection of that film material ends up empty and lifeless.
>
> Tim
>
> > Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:18:41 -0500
> > From: f at fredcamper.com
> > To: frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com
> > Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Quo Vadis Celluloid?
> >
> > Quoting Pip Chodorov <frameworks at re-voir.com>:
> >
> > You can even get filmic "flicker" with DLP, right? I don't think
> we should
> > have mystical, or fetishistic, attachments to any particular media,
> > but rather, explore the possibilities of whatever media we are
> able to
> > use.
> >
> > Fred Camper
> > Chicago
> >
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