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128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
...Even if the industry perfects itself, (in its tendencies toward control), it will never be able to take over the space of uncertainty and polysemia that is essential to images -- the possibility of transmitting a private world in a present time that is host to multiple pasts and futures. [...] In this private world, films will appear which the duty of mystery and the cloak of incognito will render unclassifiable, protean and ubiquitous; they will be inexhaustible because, gifted with infinite polysemia, and exceedingly tough to strike down. For like the humble planaria, an earthworm that merely rejuvenates in the face of starvation, becoming an egg and waiting to be born again, these films will know how to shrink without vanishing.