As audiences return, we should examine what it means to be back at the movies.
After spending a few years at home, I think we’ve underestimated what it means to be at the movies. What it means to walk into a communal space with hundreds of people and really concentrate on the images and stories we see on screen. It’s a transportive experience that delivers things larger than life.
Recently, I watched this experimental piece that tries to contextualize what it means to go back to the movies. The video essay was called “Back to Theaters” by Victoria Oliver Farner, and it was released by MUBI.
MUBI says of the film, “In cinematic language, the narration is articulated according to the size of the human in the shot composition: full-length in the context of the landscape, and then only the eyes, which appear in front of us with an unknown magnificence. ‘Back to Theaters’ returns the viewer to a non-privileged place.”
So check out this experimental piece, and let’s talk about what it means to go back to theaters after.
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
