ABSTRACT
Digital is now at the center of all discussions within the film industry. How does digital change the means of producing and directing films? What new opportunities does it offer to filmmakers? What business models does it imply? And will digital 3D become the norm? It also focuses the essential issues in theoretical discussions. Does digital radically change the identity of cinema, or does it merely push to the limit the combinatory logic that was present from the outset? 2 Does it modify the ontological relationship of film to the world and to humanity? 3 Does it lead to a loss of the indexical relationship? 4 What does it change at the level of directing and viewing films? Does film theory as it was constructed account for what is happening, or do we need a new approach, which would merge film theory into media theory? We are even witnessing the reappearance of that old theme of the death of cinema. 5
