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The Esthetics of Disappearance (1986), 5:55 mins, Tokyo.
This work, which takes its title from Paul Virilio’s publication of the same name, explores notions of the cinematic in relation to recent global history, with particular focus on the role of the media in conveying information and events into the home via the medium of the television.
Virilio’s thesis upon cinema and temporal experience proposed that ‘with the cinematic accelerator.. ...