Category: Aesthetics of Cinema
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Live Accompaniment and Air Conditioning
There are two things I often have to ask a theatre to adjust when I arrive at a new venue. One is that the piano be turned around so it’s not facing the audience, and the other is to turn down the amount of light on me and the piano. People are coming to see…
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Don’t Blink Or You’ll Miss It
The Persistence of Vision in Projected Film vs. Projected Video With all the advances and advantages there are in digital video, there is one element of cinema it has yet to replicate. It’s a subtle, literally invisible one, and I have been looking for scientific documentation on it that conclusively proves my theory. When you…