Film strips being alive is not that far out a concept if you consider the earliest form of film stock - celluoid was indeed made from gelatin (aka animal glue, stock from "stock") and rendered, to both evoke the editing term and slaughterhouses (to rend), as the basis for film and photography. I know you said not to get philosophical but film being itself animated from film (stock), the inextricable animality/anima present in cinema is something worth getting into. Lippit's Electric Animal is a fantastic read in that regard. This is not to mention the idea of cinema itself being alive, as Capital/Cthulhu/Leviathan...which of course you'll get to once you've read Kinoteuthis Infernalis :).
Great read though. Loved the whole data rot bit and learning about your attempt at disrupting actualities. Films do transform and affect us in ways any other medium would struggle to do. Perhaps for this reason we should treat it with the same sentience as we would do to another "being" (in the midst of becoming?).
ooou the connection of slaughterhouse and to rend is very interesting - to edit which is to construct (in a sense) is also to break apart. I agree, the cthulu/capital/cosmic is something that has its own liveness -- in other words, i'm very excited to read squid cinema from hell :D Thank you for your feedback!!
Film strips being alive is not that far out a concept if you consider the earliest form of film stock - celluoid was indeed made from gelatin (aka animal glue, stock from "stock") and rendered, to both evoke the editing term and slaughterhouses (to rend), as the basis for film and photography. I know you said not to get philosophical but film being itself animated from film (stock), the inextricable animality/anima present in cinema is something worth getting into. Lippit's Electric Animal is a fantastic read in that regard. This is not to mention the idea of cinema itself being alive, as Capital/Cthulhu/Leviathan...which of course you'll get to once you've read Kinoteuthis Infernalis :).
Great read though. Loved the whole data rot bit and learning about your attempt at disrupting actualities. Films do transform and affect us in ways any other medium would struggle to do. Perhaps for this reason we should treat it with the same sentience as we would do to another "being" (in the midst of becoming?).
ooou the connection of slaughterhouse and to rend is very interesting - to edit which is to construct (in a sense) is also to break apart. I agree, the cthulu/capital/cosmic is something that has its own liveness -- in other words, i'm very excited to read squid cinema from hell :D Thank you for your feedback!!