Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 00:28:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: Big Video Niether film nor video _wants_ anything; people do. This isn't a minor distinction; it's an argument against an essentialism vis-a-vis media. Beyond this, there are phenomenological issues at work dealing with screen size and placement; when I teach television aesthetics, I have to deal intensely with this. (Issues of the horizon of the body, the television set as object being watched or monitored, the history which stresses the audio track for example in the afternoon in the 1950s to create female audience loyalty, and so forth.) Alan On Tue, 2 May 1995, Robert Withers wrote: > A video might want to be made big (projected) so that it could be > seen by a large crowd of people at the same time in a big space. A film > might want to be made small so that it could be seen by one or two people > in an intimate space, at the precise time of choice. > To make a video because you can afford to make a video and not to make > a film is not a sign, IMHO, of bad artistic faith, but of intelligent > artistic strategy. > Robert Withers > > > --- from list film-theory-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list film-theory-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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