Wow this was long.

I reckon an important part was:

the vision presented by Astruc contains three implicit conclusions, in addition to the overarching one, that I shall attempt to apply to the contemporary situation for audio-visual media:

1. New technology provides new means of expression. As a result of this the film medium (i.e. forms of audio-visual expression) develops from being exclusive and privileged to a common and publicly available form of expression.

2. This, in turn, opens space for a more democratic use of the medium.

3. It also opens up new possibilities for modern (contemporary) and different forms and usages (avant-garde).”

 

I suppose that Astruc’s ideas are important to look back on, even so far in the past as they give us some scale of change that has occurred since.

Fin.

Sørenssen, Bjørn. “Digital Video and Alexandre Astruc’s Caméra-Stylo: The New Avant-Garde in Documentary Realized?” Studies in Documentary Film 2.1 (2008): 47–59. EBSCOhost. Web. 19 Sept. 2013. (Get it while it’s hot.)