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Rapid Eye Measurements
Ever since its very early days, cinema has been essentially about the projection of individual frames. Therefore it's about speed, about moving individual frames, which are projected one by one. Scientists, puzzled by the speed of light and other movements so rapid the human eye can't follow them, were among the very first to know this. In the 21st century, high-tech innovations like satellite, radar, thermal cameras, computer tomography and medical gastroscopy developed a range of totally new aesthetics, inaccessible to the naked eye. On the other hand cinema began studying ultra-slow movements, like the transformation of a landscape in the passage of time. Mainstream feature film is also often about speed. Why do trains, cars, airplanes, submarines, basically all vehicles created by man, look so great on film? Because they are mechanical. Cinema is machinery. If you forget boring drama and predictable plots, it's possible to look at the entire history of cinema as attempts to capture this mechanical urge.
Heidi Dumreicher l Sergio Fant l Marcy Goldberg l Bodo Hell l Christoph Huber l Lilli Lička l Johannes Moser l Michael O'Pray l Hans Schifferle l Burghart Schmidt l Christian Stadelmann l Jean-Philippe Tessé l Barbara Wurm