The Intelligence of a Machine
Jean Epstein, "The Intelligence of a Machine "
English | ISBN: 1937561186 | 2014 | 111 pages | PDF | 531 KB
English | ISBN: 1937561186 | 2014 | 111 pages | PDF | 531 KB
The advent of the cinema radically altered our comprehension of time, space, and reality. With his experience as a pioneering avant-garde filmmaker, Jean Epstein uses the universes created by the cinematograph to deconstruct our understanding of how time and space, reality and unreality, continuity and discontinuity, determinism and randomness function both inside and outside the cinema. Time, he says, should be regarded as the first, not the fourth, dimension—and the cinematograph allows us, for the first time, to manipulate it in directions and speeds of our choosing.
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