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Paul Virilio's War and Cinema

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Cinematic Ontology

In Egypt there was no symmetry but only equivalences walls were walls of images limestone strips painted from top to bottom on which figures passed in action. Much later, Surad rediscovered that with his divisionism while Kandinsky and filmmakers like Gantz saw the first task is to speak to the eyes. Once more we are very close to the definition of chrono photography successive images representing the different positions that a living being with a certain gate has occupied in space at a given moment. And then I can build on that quote with this next one. In essence he once said we create violence out of our memories and not out of what is directly presented to our vision. Just as in childhood the viewer

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