The term “post cinema” refers to the idea of reexamining the form, purpose, and cultural relevance of film in light of new media and technical advancements. It represents the development tendency of contemporary image culture.
The aesthetics of these post-film technologies evolved together with them.“Furthermore, the aesthetics of modern film deviate more drastically from the power geometries and cultural logics of twentieth-century cinema than simply mimic the settings produced by digital technologies and media”(S Denson,2016).In Everything Everywhere All at Once are completely represented.

Everything Everywhere All at Once（2022）

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This non-linear narrative tells the story of a mother exhausted by life in the Asian American community as she experiences multiple universes of her different selves to form a bond and unite in order to overcome an impending evil, save her daughter and save her family.The lens language of the whole universe is very flexible in the blink of an eye. For example,the beginning of the movie Evelyn is on her first trip through multiverse and her chair is thrust backwards and then a mirror breaks and one half of her original space-time hue is white and the other half is black.Not only that, but as Evelyn moves from her chair through many multiverse Spaces the buildings next to her change rapidly like a train ride.

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It’s worth noting that match cut allows the film’s lens design to be quickly adjusted after visual replacement, superposition, and compounding of the same character’s actions in various time and location using the likeness principle. It creates a sense of spatial uncertainty and allows the spectator to experience the “travel” of the multiverse.It is precisely because film has the ability to edit, splicing, and combining different space-time scenes that it is the most suitable medium for expressing the multiverse. In other words, movies are really “everything everywhere all at once.”This is the aesthetic of the post-cinema.

Reference:

Perspectives on post-cinema: An introduction (2016) POST-CINEMA. Available at: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/post-cinema/introduction/ (Accessed: 19 November 2024).

By Chuyi Zhang-33741312