ABSTRACT
The term "meaning" is itself so ambiguous that perhaps a preliminary word is in order as to how it will be used. If the most frequent example of the meaningful is language, the way in which words mean things turns out to be singularly inappropriate to own subject of films. If the film itself is the order of business, and the film is understood as representational, then we already have places where meaning and the meaningless can be located. The film medium is of course the means in which, by which, or through which we see something else. For the audience this is the audiovisual image. But, then, after all this is said, it should also be said that this film and the filmmakers' spirit together are offered to an audience of human beings; they are not indeed passive receptors of a preformed meaning. The film perhaps means something to them, too.
