Post Cinema: The Humanism Return Of Digital Image

At the end of last century, when cinema was going to celebrate its 100th birthday, some film researchers and filmmakers expressed their worries about the future of cinema. In their point of views, the digital technology was changing the tradition of cinema. Cinema is dead, or maybe dying. Digital camera is supplanting celluloid projection, and will do so more quickly than anyone would think possible, and this change is having profound ramifications on every aspect of filmmaking. Photography, sound, editing, and special effects have already in; production, distribution, projection, and home delivery are being undergone.It may say today's cinema is different, that's true, cause today's cinema with the digital technblogy can give the film viewers more vivid images and more real and dreamlike feelings. However, digital technology does not mean to kill the cinema as the pessimists thought, on the contrary, digital technology, as a new invention in cinema history, is going to bring cinema to a new stage, which I call the post-cinema era.This post-cinema era is not an end to cinema, but a new phase in the cinema history, just as the silent cinema in the past. What's more, post-cinema is a return to the humanism. The digital image is a bridge to making viewers much closer to the reality which the film creates, even though the reality is virtual to some extend.