[Frameworks] Quo Vadis Celluloid?

[Els van Riel]

------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.----

Same experience in recently transformed movie theatre here in Brussels !

Els


On 20 Aug 2011, at 08:08, marilyn brakhage wrote:

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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