#archmf

"Waiting as working" is one of the strongest legacies cinema has as a political and social mechanism,
aut

Elsaesser: 5 types of energy-movement in cinema.

http://www.thomas-elsaesser.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=41&Itemid=72

Kingdom of Shadows

Last night I was in the Kingdom of Shadows. If you only knew how strange it is to be there. It is a world without sound, without colour. Everything there – the earth, the trees, the people, the water and the air – is dipped in monotonous grey. Grey rays of the sun across the grey sky, grey eyes in grey faces, and the leaves of the trees are ashen grey. It is not life but its shadow, it is not motion but its soundless spectre. Here I shall try to explain myself, lest I be suspected of madness or indulgence in symbolism. I was at Aumont’s and saw Lumière’s cinematograph – moving photography

Maxim Gorky July 4, 1896,  the Lumière Bros. films at the Nizhny-Novgorod fair in Russia.