“The cinematic apparatus, even for experimental cinema where it is often excluded, in itself favors a staging. It is by itself a staging: first as a process (24 frames/second), then as the use of a repetition that will be more or less modified according to how one works its potentialities or according to the uses that are pulled from it. Obsession reigns, the beautiful repetition realizing itself until the end of the projection time. Often, however, this mechanism is masked for the profit of the narrative usage founded on the simulacrum. This is what explains the widening gap between experimental and traditional cinema. The scene, and thus the staging of the scene, is not the same, even when it is a question of the same thing…”
