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"On close examination, even our vision appears to be intermittent, which explains why, in film, pans often feel artificial or forced. this stems from the fact that one never pans in his real life. in truth, when we turn our heads we don't actually see a graceful continuum but a series of tiny jump-cuts, little stills joined, perhaps, by infinitesimal dssolves. thus our visual experience in daily life is akin to the intermittance of cinema.

Intermittance penetrates to the very core of our being, and film vibrates in a way that is close to this core. It is as basic as lfe and death, existence and nonexistence. My own instinct is that the poles of existence and nonexistence alternate at an extremely fast speed, and that we float in that alternation.

A second aspect (...)

We certainly know the shallow, sickening feeling of leaving a film that has had no true respect for the intermittance of our beeing. Such a film does not respect what we know life to be, it is not what we experience. It is too solid. It is an act of rudeness. 

Allowng intermittence into a film activates the viewer's mind. There is an oppurtunity to make connections, to feel alive and stimulated. Making these connections, activating these synapses, brings the viewer into the present moment. "

Nathaniel Dorsky, Devotional Cinema