#what-is-cinema

▤ Reading group: Bazin’s What Is Cinema?, starting with ‘The Ontology of the Photographic Image’

A friend sent me André Bazin's essay ‘The Ontology of the Photographic Image’ (1945), and it begins with my trade: Egyptian mummies, portraits, the old human wish to preserve a being against time. Bazin calls it a ‘mummy complex’ at the origin…