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EXPERIENCING FILMS

Prof. Laura Nistor-Cernica

Romania

I can think of few arts which are as creative as the one of films or filming; more often than not, other arts like music, painting or dance, are contained in films or serve as its medium of expression.

Starting from the concept of „moving pictures” (later on „movies”), the cinematic art has acquired a spiritual life of its own kind, because the thinking behind it projects on the screen not only the external images of beings and things, but also the vitality contained in the mechanical perfection of the camera movements: that certain rhythmic uniqueness of the time frame within the confines of which the very images of life unravel in front of our stupefied eyes. You are offered another means of perception, you actually achieve your own film, you do your own „reading” of films, you constantly cut out from it snapshots of your very existence.

Motto:

The cinema is the truth told in 24 frames per second…