Transparencies
I think there’s a basic fascination in technology which derives from the fact that there’s always a hidden space–a control room, a projection booth, a source of light of some kind — from which the image comes. A painting on canvas, no matter how good it is, is to our eyes more or less flat, or at least flatter than the luminescent image of cinema, television, or the transparencies […] The luminescent image is fascinating because it’s lit with another atmosphere. So two atmospheres intersect to make the image. One of them, the hidden one, is more powerful than the …