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Without Sun
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for Méliès & J-P Rehm
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in between: the earth, the sun (argentic)
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in between: the earth, the moon (VHS)
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the earth from the moon with the shadow in the middle (DVD)
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R.epresentation : |
R.eproduction : |
R.eception : |
- The earth was flat, it become round, and then we went to the moon and it became flat again. |
- Images passed from one reel to the other; they now pass etched in the groove of a disk. |
- We looked at images from a position in between their origin and their reproduction (the cinema screen); we now look at images while facing their source and their translation (the television screen). |
- The sun turned around the earth, then the earth around the sun, and now the earth turns around man, with or without the sun. |
- Sound had only one center and images had two. There was the reel and the groove. Then images and sound passed into the obscurity of the magnetic reel, and finally onto the groove of the same laser disk. |
- We looked at light and heard duration; we invented stereo and digitalized images, and since we look at sound and listen to images. |
- Man stood between two stars, the earth and the sun, he went into space and since then he sees himself from above. |
- Images were projected horizontally and from behind, and the gaze followed them in the same direction; images are now read vertically and from above(DVD), and the gaze intercepts them perpendicularly. From Heracles to Atlas. |
- We looked, in obscurity, at images that came from the light (the cinema screen); we now look, in the light, at images that come from obscurity (the television screen). From the cave to the agora. |
- Galileo was at first ignored and since then knowledge has replaced experience; we believe in what we know and we see what we have read. |
- Writing was born from the reproduction of images(the ideogram); today images are born from the translation of texts (digital). |
- We looked at an uninterrupted succession of equivalent images that gave the illusion of movement (cinema); we now look at the equation of difference between images, which gives the illusion of movement (DVD encoding). |