Przeszłość i przyszłość, czyli przestrzenie możliwego. Przyczynek do badań nad kinem jako wehikułem czasu
The Past and the Future, or the Spaces of the Possible. Contribution to the Study of Research on Cinema as a Time Machine

Summary/Abstract: Cinema, in its essence and in view of its function is a time machine par excellence. Electronic television and video diversified this property, made it richer and broader, on the one hand by the possibility of delivering events to far locations in the form of images and sounds simultaneously (telematics), on the other hand by broadcasting microelements of time sequences at intervals. Within the electronic mode, the structuralisation of time does not apply only to the relation between single frames or half images, because here images in the structural sense are created at tremendous speed. This implies that in this case we can forget about continuity. The construction of electronic images takes place all the time, but discontinuously. Becoming aware of the technological dimension of film as a time machine corresponded with the development of dramaturgy characteristic for the period, within the framework of various avant-garde movements after World War II. New quality of audiovisual time machines was established with the advent of computer games. The deciding factor was the integration of the recipient of the story with the narrative and dramatic sequences – a paradigm shifts thanks to which the observer became the participant. Film gained the status of a mundane product not as a virtual reality but as expanded reality, in which the player became a co-actor.

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