Other Terminology
Critics and artists used terms such as Absolute Film, Pure Cinema, and Integral Cinema — Dulac's term which might better be translated "Self-Sufficient" or "Complete" cinema — to stress that these works, all of them, functioned only as cinema art: that they could not exist in any other medium because their essential effect arose from the unique potentials of the cinematic mechanism, such as flexible montage of time and space, measured pacing and control of gaze, exact repetition, single-frame diversity and continuity, superimposition and its related split-screen imagery.
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