FILM 279 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kuselan, Asta Nielsen, Thomas Edison
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Lose forever the analogic support, radically separated from previous work: unified trajectory, business as usual. Some things have not changed, cinema is an art, but also a business. Continuation of smt, of what started at the beginning of 20th century. This particular moment of digitalisation is a moment of all possibilities (looking at the past and rethinking the practice of visual culture. To look back at original cinema, and recognize a variety of and heterogeneity of practices. We do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e fil(cid:373) history, (cid:449)e ha(cid:448)e film histories. Not when is cinema, more what is cinema. Already in the 1st year: global cinema. What do we want from images what is their responsibility fiction/documentary: dialogue kept open b/w these 2 modes. Science, documentary locatedness of knowledge: of being in a place, how do we know the past, the past is an encounter: importance of field scholar, students as living in a certain present, encounter the past through your present.
