Unenlightenment Supercut (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #3 extract: Unenlightenment Supercut (2016)

Unenlightenment Supercut. Another experimental short by Cloutier, this time one that's a little more interesting - though a little too long with an off sound design. Sustaining a contemplation on the digital image, this short seems to ask the worth of a frame when it can be manipulated, made transparent, or superimposed - in a certain sense, unenlightened. We think of screens as holding images that can be powerful, lasting and significant, but, with a little manipulation, this all goes entirely out of the window. If cinema is just light and we can control that electromagnetic signal, what exactly separates this short from other digital films with powerful imagery? Is it just people? Audiences? Editors? If so, does that take the magic of cinema away ever so slightly?