‘The way in which human perception is organised,’ Benjamin wrote, ‘is conditioned not only by nature but by history.’
To film anything is to safeguard it for the future, and so to foresee its eventual loss. It is to watch a set of moments pass into a separate realm both inside and outside of time. ‘In the sky of cinema, people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.’
John Berger
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