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Earlier this year, I worked a lot with aspects of Peter Wollen's 2001 article "An Alphabet of Cinema", NEW LEFT REVIEW, 12, for my video series and essay Beast Fables (thecine-files.com/cgrant/), published in a special issue of THE CINE-FILES on animals in the cinema .

I return to that work (in quite a literal-minded way) for this, my very small videographic tribute to Wollen, foundational filmmaker-theorist and prescient thinker, who died this week after a very long illness.

In this article he also wrote:
"O is for Online. Strictly speaking, we are moving away from cinema now, yet the cinema itself is clearly mutating into a digital art, with its dependence on special effects and its potential for home delivery and interactivity. Digital technology is changing the whole nature of image-capture, allowing images to be changed, combined and appropriated. When cinema goes online, we will be able to download films and simultaneously summon up clips from other films for comparison, background information from research libraries and archives, even out-takes that we can use privately to make our own revised versions of sequences. Film-studies seminars will be global events with participants in distance-learning classrooms, watching and discussing the same films."

The form of this video was also partly inspired by graphics from the ending of Wollen's remarkable essay film FRIENDSHIP'S DEATH (UK 1987).

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