Moving images and the real: the responsibilities of technology in expressing filmic reality

This research considered successive transitions between imaging technologies that render screen based moving images and interrogated how these images represent reality. Despite numerous media histories that document relationships between moving images and reality, the vital enquiry into the modulation of this relationship by distinctive technologies was not yet fully explored. My research found that analog electronic images are typically and erroneously considered to be continuous, set against the discrete nature of digital images. The often-cited analog/digital divide aligns analog video and television with the medium of film. Materially however, analog electronic reproduction is nothing like cinematographic representation. These findings substantially recast media histories describing the ontology of moving images.