Sophisticated internal motors reduce camera shakiness. Exposure and focus are instantaneous, automatic and exact. Sound precludes a need for visual cues. Images do not exist without the machines and software required to interpret binary data. Technology, driven by commerce and a thirst for efficiency, endlessly attempts to eradicate any lingering traces of humanity from the craft of cinema.
History is rewritten to accommodate the trend of the moment.
Any personal vision in contemporary moviemaking must now come solely from its content, not its form. The splice has become invisible. The middle six feet were never there.