Film

Film is the art of moving images, recorded and arranged in sequence to tell a story or convey an experience, combining elements of photography, writing, performance, music, and editing into a single medium. It emerged as a technology in the final years of the nineteenth century and matured rapidly into a narrative art over the following decades, developing techniques of editing, camera movement, and sound that had no precedent in the older performing arts. National film industries developed distinct styles, and Japanese cinema in particular, through directors such as Akira Kurosawa, brought a rigorous visual and narrative discipline to international attention in the decades after the Second World War, influencing filmmakers worldwide. Film is often described as a collaborative and industrial art, typically produced by large creative and technical teams and dependent on the equipment and, later, the digital tools of its era, in contrast to the more solitary practice associated with painting or sculpture. Its combination of moving image and recorded sound allows a single work to reach audiences across the world in a way earlier performing arts, tied to a single live performance, could not.