#immersive-cinema

#immersive-cinema

Small, nimble cameras occupy perspectives inaccessible to human perception, creating images that are more visceral and embodied than the purely retinal. In the absence of verbal narration, we witness an interconnected logic of violence: The camerawork lets us see the brutal working conditions, but also the brutality toward other sentient beings and the sea, all unfolding as part of the same process.

Thank you, Dana and Justin, for those lovely tributes to Rob Reiner, a man who always seemed like a mensch in addition to being someone whose big- and small-screen contributions were inconceivably enormous. I love the way you put it, Justin, that Reiner had "an anti-auteurist touch" throughout that incredible eight-year run of films he directed. It's true that each of those classics works miraculously well without bearing the insistent marks of an individual's creative ownership.