"Expanded Cinema" is an eclectic name for many sorts of film, drama, dance and projection events. The term was first used in the 1960's in the context of multimedia performances. Essentially this form of art means glancing sideways at the "multiple screens and multiple images linked to handheld projectors, multi-screens and live theatrical performance. "Spiritualization of the image," expanded cinema instantiates the primacy of the dream as an analogy for film, into which it might be finally absorbed by virtue of shared hypnogogic imagery and the dissolution of the senses.
Expanded cinema echoes the late-Romantic sensibility of the fusion of all of the senses, and the symbolist origins of the first European avant-gardes...
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