2 years ago
Delivery systems are simply and only technologies; media are also cultural systems.
- Henry Jenkins, Cultural Convergence
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2 years ago
This is your brain on video
“Here’s another example: a new trend on Flickr called the long portrait. These are short videos in which the subjects simply stare into the camera. The first time you see one, it’s unsettlingly intense. The subject’s gaze—staring at you—totally discombobulates the normal voyeuristic payload of a photo.”
2 years ago
The viewer’s cut
“Watch Late Fragment straight through and you won’t really understand why a young woman kills her doting father. Take control of the film, unlocking hidden footage and shuffling scenes around, and you learn that Dad may dote a little too much. Because the truth is, our perception of stories and characters shifts as we learn more about them. On this filmfest-and-DVD-only feature from a trio of Canadians, you delve deeper by using your remote: Click at the beginning of a scene and you’ll be taken somewhere totally different than if you do so at the end. Any given viewing might weave 90 or so of the 139 available scenes into a Pulp Fiction-like circular story arc.”
