Digital Technology, Indexicality, and Cinema

Security and rights management in digital cinema

This paper provides an overview of Digital Cinema including some of the architectural ideas that have been proposed and are being considered. There are a number of security tools that can be used with the goal of secure delivery of motion picture content to the projector. There are many technical and business constraints that guide these designs. Independently, there have been a number of effor...

On Location: Landscape Cinema and Digital Memory

This paper critically reflects on the registers and affects of memory in relation to place, cinematic space, and the materiality of digital film-making technologies, using our recent moving image artwork, On Location (2017), as a case study: this practice-as-research film captures the location over a twelve month period in an unnamed sunken lane at a remote area of rural mid-Devon. On Location ...

Digital Cinema Technologies from the Archive’s Perspective

Exhibition QIM-based watermarking for digital cinema

The copyright protection of Digital Cinema requires the insertion of forensic watermarks during exhibition playback. This paper presents a low-complexity exhibition watermarking method based on quantization index modulation (QIM) and embedded in the DCI compliant decoder. Watermark embedding is proposed to fit in the JPEG2000 decoding process, prior to the inverse wavelet transform and such as ...

The Emergence of a Digital Cinema

Paradigmatic change is driving aesthetic change in cinema. This restructuring is not only transforming what is on the screen, but the means of production that put it there. The interplay of technology and culture, along with their dynamics has made this so. Marshall McLuhan’s Laws of Media provide an effective lens with which to examine this change. Some preliminary observations on the shape of...