The screen is a neutral element in the film-going experience. Or is it? It projects dreams but is also the receptacle of our dreams. It’s the vehicle for delivering the image to an audience — but does it also watch the audience at the same time? Is it a complicitous membrane which audience members can penetrate and which interacts with the spectators, despite its seeming passivity? Maybe — to all of the above …
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Video Essay: Mark Rappaport on The Empty Screen
A new video essay from Mark Rappaport about movies in movies, and how the screen watches us just as we watch it.
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