Today, when human society submits more thoroughly to the order of numeric clock-time, cinema cannot remain unaffected, especially with the dependence of cinematic production on capital and the social division of labor. When the specialization and rationalization of the filmmaking process grows increasingly intensified, cinema seems to be not only losing its capabilities to shock and to interrupt the unilinear experience of time, but is also becoming less and less sincere to its own inadequacy. For those who still love cinema not for what it is, but for what it could be, the question then becomes, where does hope lie now? When the fundamental conditions of the production process cannot be easily changed at this historical moment, is cinema still capable of producing images that allow it to be honest to its fragmentation? When every film being made is always a compromise, could we still produce good images that still possess the power of intervention in reality? Can we still produce images that are not simply repetition of the existing social structure? These are the questions that this paper attempts to address.
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