sculpting in time
Time in the “Before” and “Up” Films
June 3, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts
Brett McCracken at Mere Orthodoxy writes on time and the power of cinema:
A professor I admire once said — while discussing the films of Yasujiro Ozu, or maybe it was semiotics (can’t remember) — that …
Cinema in Modern Life
May 22, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts
“[Movies] are a way of imprinting time — capturing and preserving …
Are Animated GIFs Cinema?
April 23, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts
Landon Palmer of FilmSchoolRejects interacts with an IndieWire piece on GIFs as cinema:
“Popular modes of moving-image distraction on the Internet present a rich paradox for the cinephile: it both signals cinema’s supposed end (the certain …
Photography and Time
February 7, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts
Susan Sontag, from On Photography (1973)
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being …
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