<videovortex> Preliminary Notes on Web-hosted Cinema

[Seth Keen]

http://www.braintrustdv.com/essays/web-hosted.html

Preliminary Notes on Web-hosted Cinema

by Alejandro Adams

There is nothing unique about returning to early film theory in an  
attempt to delimit the creative uses of digital video technology.  
Comparing the infancy of the first manifestation of cinema with the  
infancy of its successor is as natural as it is profitable. Invoking,  
as I will, the elaborate investigations of early theorists such as  
Béla Balázs and Rudolf Arnheim is a way to clarify my own  
observations concerning digital cinema in general and Web-hosted  
cinema in particular. Even so, it is the writing not of an abstruse  
theorist but of a straightforward filmmaker which seems most  
pertinently to foreshadow certain limitations and tendencies of this  
new cinema. Satyajit Ray's Our Films, Their Films, a collection of  
mild-mannered essays spanning three decades, is a blunt apologia of  
impoverished filmmaking. An amalgam of light criticism, stirring  
memoir, and affectionate lecturing, this collection may be the  
touchstone against which to verify the integrity of amateur visual  
storytellers working today.

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