Shadows are the essence of cinema. After attending the screening of the Lumière brothers’ films at a Russian fair in July 1896, the writer Maxim Gorky wrote: “Last night I was in the kingdom of shadows.” He was right: when the light in the projector hits the unexposed, dark parts of the frame in the celluloid film strip it produces dark light effects, or shadows, on the screen. The prototypes of screen shadows are the shadows we experience in our daily lives, projected on a wall or the pavement. Our shadow is real but at the same time strangely elusive: we cannot touch or feel it, it may be on the ground in front of us but we cannot jump over it or shake it off, and if it is behind us we cannot run away from it. In the cinema, a cast shadow can be perceived as an independent dark shape and an actual part of that surface...read and see more at https://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-kingdom-of-shadows.html
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