Fragments of Dirk Lauwaert / LOLA Journal

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28.12.2015

The new issue of LOLA Journal, edited by Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu, features a Sabzian contribution: Fragments of Dirk Lauwaert, the English translation of an article previously published on Sabzian here.

You can find the content of the sixth LOLA issue here.

Dirk Lauwaert LOLA Journal

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Film is fundamentally the choice of a viewpoint in space, toward that space. Film is recording and therefore fundamentally contemporary (one cannot record that which is gone, the past). The spectator always watches contemporary images (even when they have aged, they remain contemporary through their model). This disposition sees to it that those who love films become ‘contemporary’ with every film.

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