Film: Another Death, Another Life

<p dir="ltr">The main topics I seek to address in this paper are <i>the decay of cinema</i>, of which <i>the death of film</i> is just one part, <i>the loss of the filmic</i> due to an imposed takeover by digital processes, and the relationship between these two trends. I will attempt to put these topics in perspective (historically and artistically) to illustrate that the current doom thinking represents a limited outlook on <i>the future of cinema</i>, although I agree that we should be concerned about <i>the future of film</i>. I will start by making distinctions between “film,” “cinema,” and “movies,” to clarify the terms of debate.</p>