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Paul Virilio's War and Cinema

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

CHAPTER

The Importance of Time in Cinema

Time is the way in which at least for the last class subject takes on a dynamic unity. If we have a tight close up on an actor's face right there's something intimate about that. And then there's a like proximity to it proximity in the sense of like our sympathy, if you will. Close up can really convey emotion in a way that a shot from far away may not but let's even that asidelet's go back to like the difference between like a close up and a wide shot. The way things are perceived to kind of go what I'm saying there. There's a different nature of time there right between those two.

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