[Frameworks] Quo Vadis Celluloid?

[gregg biermann]

One of the interesting things here, I think, is that just about everyone 
here allows for personal choices when it come to media. Even if those 
choices are different we all seem to allow media makers to choose what 
technology works for their own practice. This is as opposed to seeing in 
the contemporary situation cinema a kind of vector along the lines of 
this statement by Oskar Fischinger "oil on canvas is a thing of the 
past" or that abstract cinema is necessarily a higher art than 
"photographic realism" because "surface realism destroys the the deep 
and absolute creative force". Probably that kind of modernism seems 
quaint to our eyes and the idea of seeing in the cinema one way to work 
seems uncomfortably essentialist to us and we are no longer interested 
in that kind of purity.  It seems our current attitude results in the 
kind of work that we are making today --  works that refine and revise 
past practices and not works that confound our sensibilities as viewers. 
The idea that a completely novel form of cinema will change the way we 
see the world (and thus change the world) is a kind of utopian glamour 
that has been replaced by a more contradictory and provisional sort of 
work.


On 8/22/2011 10:52 PM, Todd Eacrett wrote:
> You're going to start an acoustic vs. electric debate...
>
>
>> I'm sure it's just entropy or laziness on my part, but rather than
>> get excited about video, I think I'll just play the guitar.
>>
>> -Pip
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