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[T]he first videographic film whose existence was equally the result of cinema and video disciplines. Like all true videographic cinema, OffOn is not filmed TV, in the way that most movies are filmed theater. Rather, it’s a metamorphosis of technologies. (Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema)

That’s becoming a kind of aesthetic common denominator. Marrying techniques so the techniques don’t show up separately from the whole. It’s crossbreeding information. That’s what a computer does, too. Having several aesthetics force each other into their separate molds and then sort of seeing what happens. (Scott Bartlett, quoted in Expanded Cinema)

• Sektion Section: Film
• Programm Programme: Expanded Cinema: A Tribute to Gene Youngblood’s Book 2