Film is a photographic medium: a strip of still frames which, when projected at 24 frames per second, creates an impression of ‘reality’. We cannot speak, therefore, about film without addressing photography’s relationship to the recent history of representation. The story may commence with the Renaissance, since its reformulation of the classical tradition set the […]

Photography, with its monocular vision and dependence on light, assumed the classical order of space on light, assumed the classical order of space and knowledge and nature as its ultimate referent. Nevertheless, this mirror of reality is not as all encompassing as it appears; beyond the idealising frame a peripheral distortion takes place – a […]