The digitization of cinema, from shooting to projection, threatens to drag it into the widespread acceleration of the world. Information, shows, advertisements, markets: what increases is the pressure.
However, the movie viewer is reluctant to be treated as a consumer of shows. It is fortunate, art of time, cinema invites us to enter forms and durations that are not those of the usual experience. In a world saturated with images, the off-field that opens inside cinemas is the adventure that frees our imaginaries.
In the approximately two hundred entries of this alphabet, the reader will find an approach at the same time practical, technical and theoretical of the gestures, thoughts and tools that constitute cinema from the photochemical to the digital. The history of techniques sheds light on their use.
From now on, cinema is in every hands, and better so, against the dislocation of the present, it's still what it brings together.