No perception is without memories :: Wherever an image has once been, it carries with it that trace in every new encounter, and so on, to other encounters... In the usual course of a montage of images, certainly one of linearity, the 'next' image is a modifier of the previous image but in a strict line of continuity so that what you understand is causation and consequence... Every shot, sequence of shots, series of sequences and entire films have two directions. One is toward the reality it depicts and the other toward the composition and enunciation of that depiction...
There is the frame.
The frame is usually a cut-out, an extract, an excision from the pro-filmic. The frame establishes a border between what is on-screen, within the frame, and what is off-screen, beyond it. This ensures a homogeneity. It implies a continuum between the on-screen and off-screen. The one is simply a fragment of the other as a part is to a whole. Every fragment refers back to a unity...
The frame is usually a cut-out, an extract, an excision from the pro-filmic. The frame establishes a border between what is on-screen, within the frame, and what is off-screen, beyond it. This ensures a homogeneity. It implies a continuum between the on-screen and off-screen. The one is simply a fragment of the other as a part is to a whole. Every fragment refers back to a unity...
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