Cinema unfolds over time; it can marry - and divorce - sounds and images; through editing it can bring together disparate spaces, and disconnect adjacent ones. And as it does all this, it also draws on the indexical qualities of the photographic images to conjure a world that resembles the one we normally inhabit, and yet is at the same time self evidently virtual. Cinema creates paradoxical worlds that are imaginary while alluding to the ( or a ) 'real' world.
- Annette Kuhn 2008
