ABSTRACT
The Ontology of movies names an interest in what they are, their being, rather than in how they are made, how they are experienced, how they relate to their culture, how they relate to the authors or audiences psyche and how they relate to other films. The perception of movies, or any other art for that matter, have a "medium" in which a meaning or message is expressed might seem to be an unshakable basis for rational criticism. Ad nauseam, one reads criticism designed to show that a given film either reflects its society, or attacks it for noble purposes. Both try to establish coherences between the film and society. A sensibility is a horizon or system of choices itself freely chosen, within which the filmmaker makes his film, as well as the horizon of taste within which the audience experiences it.
