The moving image as an institution does not exist as it once did, yet this thing we call cinema is growing, developing all the time; getting bigger, stronger, more flexible, influential, seductive, and ultimately more powerful. As a constructed environment, a solid structure ('the cinema') this monolithic force held sway over the first half of the twentieth century, yet in the period following World war II, the edifice started to crack, and - in the form that the movie industry itself expanded into which was TV - it looked like cinema was starting to crumble, shrink, fade away. Yet, of course, that didn't ever happen. What happened was a strange divide in that the film industry took refuge in the blockbuster - the juggernaut product - while cinema lives on in another form for the audience.
The space of desire....that role of cinema to provide our dream place, our projection of fantasy, is now transformed into what the audience is now able to construct for itself. What I am doing as I write this blog. Creating My (cinematic) space...
To be continued......
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