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The document discusses the "stochasticity" or discontinuity between individual film frames. There are no rules governing how film images are connected in a sequence. Each frame is both a beginning and ending, with no causal relationship to what comes before or after. Films exhibit this through editing choices, where any shot could potentially be cut. This is illustrated in the Cargo film clip, where each frame is an instant in a random series, and any change to a shot alters the world of the film. As viewer

Author

Davide Panagia

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