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Time is the Surface of the Cinema

Jingwen Chen

Abstract


In modern society, film and television technology has developed rapidly and as a result, it has created a very special power by displaying stories. Visual media has stimulated people to explore their inner worlds as well as prompting the viewer to raise questions and be curious about the future. The peculiar nature of cinema, in turn, reveals the peculiarity of the human soul. It can be summarised in the quote: “cinema was the instrument which humanity had to have in order to increase its mastery over the real world” (Tarkovsky, 1986, 82). Cinema has influenced the entire human evolution process, setting it on a technical and logical path. This paper interprets the film is the art of creating images within moving time and space, via the medium of pictures and sounds on screen.

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Surface; Screen; Cinema; Time; Space; Images Movement

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v5i8.3862

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