January 2011
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the script of Chris Marker's "La jetée" →
This is the story of a man marked by an image from his childhood. The violent scene, whose meaning he would not grasp until much later, took place on the great jetty at Orly, a few years before the start of the Third World War.
On Sundays, parents bring their children to watch the planes… Of this Sunday, the child of this story would remember the frozen sun, the scene at the end of the...
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What Makes a Face Look Alive? →
The face of a doll is clearly not human; the face of a human clearly is. Telling the difference allows us to pay attention to faces that belong to living things, which are capable of interacting with us. But where is the line at which a face appears to be alive
A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that a face has to be...