Radu Jude

I would add all the photographs in the world, all home movies, all Instagram and TikTok videos, etc., and all the videos in all the smartphones in the world because I believe in the infinite cinema: “A polymorphous camera has always turned, and will turn forever, its lenses focused upon all the appearances of the world. Before the invention of still photography, the frames of the infinite cinema were blank, black leader; then a few images began to appear upon the endless ribbon of film. Since the birth of the photographic cinema, all the frames are filled with images. There is nothing in the structural logic of the cinema filmstrip that precludes sequestering any single image. A still photograph is simply an isolated frame taken out of the infinite cinema.” (Hollis Frampton, For a Metahistory of Film: Commonplace Notes and Hypotheses)