Film and Cinema

Film and Cinema Checkpoint

Art 101

The distinction of film and popular cinema can be found in the reasons that each was "created." Both can be used for documenting what one sees and feels however there is a difference in the way that people chose to use the different aspects.

Film has been widely used as a documentation of events; wars, economic crisis, natural disasters, etc. Film has also been used over dramatize cinematic movies, such as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. This was done by Douglas Gordon in his 1993, 24 Hour Psycho where he drew out the original scenes to span only two frames per second, thus causing the movie to span an entire 24 hours. The Battleship Potemkin was a montage, a sequencing of disparate images used to create a multi faceted image, which was...