VOLUME 17: PSYCHOPOMP
“Last night I was in the Kingdom of Shadows. If you only knew how strange it is to be there.”
“It is not life but its shadow. It is not motion but its soundless spectre.”
So wrote Maxim Gorky in his eyewitness account of the Lumière brothers’ cinématographe screening (1895-96), the first commercial film screenings open t…
