Category Archive for: ‘Issue 35 – Classics & Re-runs’

This text was first written in 1980, when I was 20 years old. I had already been published in magazines including Cinema Papers, Metro and Buff over the preceding year. My notes from the time inform me that I intended submitting this lengthy piece to the then-burgeoning Australian Journal of Screen Theory but, for some reason, I never bit that …

Every shot is independent of those that together with it make up the film. A film is a collection of independent shots. When we see a film of four hundred shots, we do not see a film, we see four hundred films. Each shot is the figure of one or more events captured from a point of view. In each …