Editors: Arie Altena, Boris Debackere
Copy Editor: Nick Thompson
Design: Femke Herregraven
Translation: Robin D’hooge (VanderBeeken), Laura Martz (Mulder), Mark Poysden (Holthuis)
185 pp., English, 2008

Cinema has stimulated our imagination for more than a century. Numerous new media strive towards creating a resembling experience in their audiences. Recent technological developments in digitalisation, higher-definition image and sound, ever-faster communication networks and new types of portable video players make it necessary to consider, what is this particular experience we describe as ‘cinematic’? Through a series of commissioned essays and interviews, this publication brings together theorists and artists to reflect on the history, present and future of cinematic experiences.

Contents

Introduction – Boris Debackere

The Mechanisation of the Magical Sign – Joost Rekveld

Kurt Hentschläger: Heightening Experience – Interview by Arie Altena

The Immersive Experience: Aspects and Challenges – Rob Vanderbeeken

Stephen O’Malley: Drones Are a Defeat of Time and Space – Interview by Arie Altena

Notes On Cinema and Prosthetic Memory – Thomas Zummer

Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag: 612.43 Weiss Is Almost Cinema, It Stops Just Before It Really Becomes Cinema – Interview by Arie Altena

★ The Location of The Cinematic Experience – Lucrezia Cippitelli

Ernie Gehr: Experience Is Being Thrown Into Uncharted Territory, Then You Discover Things – Interview by Martijn van Boven and Arie Altena

Simon Ruschmeyer: Maybe Cinematic Experiences on the Web Can Touch People as Much as Cinema – Interview by Jan Hiddink

A Few Thoughts On Cinematic Experience Duration, Structural Film and The Comforts of the Cinema – Greg Kurcewicz

Tom Rawlings, Ana Kronschnabl: On The Internet I Do Not Need Somebody Else To Decide If My Story Is Worth Telling – Interview by Jan Hiddink

New Eyes for The Mind – Randy Jones

Lev Manovich: We Have Only Just Started – Interview by Jan Hiddink

Franl Bretschneider: The Danger as That You Become Too Illustrative – Interview by Arie Altena

Live Audiovisual Performance as a Cinematic Practice – Jan Schacher

Thomas Körner: The Projector is my Favorite Sonic Object – Interview by Arie Altena

Jürgen Reble: Activating the Visual Cortex – Interview by Arie Altena

What’s Real About Film – Arjen Mulder

Looking or Chattering – Gerard Holthuis