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Credit: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution

Ben Flanagan

The film was dead: to begin with. Mortal images are captured, projected onto a wall for a time, and then forgotten about. What else should the life-span of a film be? A film may only be alive during production. In distribution, life may take the form of a festival run, or a heavy marketing campaign. I…

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