Film requires industry and a certain amount of compromise with capitalist forces to function though, of course a culture conditioned to neoliberal isolation and escapeism would champion that, a person telling a story orally has a direct connection, actors in a theater have a direct connection, a musician performing on a stage has a direct connection, but recorded media and museums have a certain level of curated perfection that disconnect from the human element and tend to shift the balance further towards product

@@tysonbrinacombe thanks, I don’t think of a movie quite as you bring up commercial movies. Dewey or any other philosopher for the most part can’t directly say much about pointing the camera and recording a scene. Hollywood production is stuck on the viewing of movies in a theater. If one stays enclosed in that ‘scenario’ some questions like ‘wholeness’ are hard to address. For example 360 cameras, is that wholeness? Those tools are mostly amateurs toys. But they try to address the sense of everything or the whole surrounding us. Hollywood will pick up techniques like ‘3d’ to gain new audiences, or expand their market. But 3D movies don’t work well for about 20% of humans. 3D is a kind of metaphor for wholeness in human vision. And it’s quite unlike a 360 movie. Dewey might as a philosopher speak to wholeness, but is not really prepared to engage with ‘seeing’ the whole.