Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Synaesthetic Cinema


"Synaesthetic cinema transcends the notion of reality. It doesn't "chop the world into little fragments." ..... The notion of universal unity and cosmic simultaneity is a logical result of the psychological effects of the global communications network."t As literal as this sounds this reminds of the social media that completely absorbs our lives today. I wonder if he would be approving of it because it is essentially a level of global communication that does not in fact have any kind of physical representation. The concept of communicating with people through the internet, the television, radio, etc. all transcend reality. But then I wonder if he would completely disagree with this form of global communication since it is essential owned and operated by corporations, which may be considered as some form of governmental control. It is this idea that makes me think that perhaps the ideals of Synaesthetic Cinema are not constrained to that of film and art. doesn't "chop the world into little fragments," an


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