In the scene already mentioned in BLADE RUNNER, a computer is able to zoom in on details in a photograph, without losing any detail, always going in and in and in, and this is used to discover a tiny clue hidden in a snapshot. The interesting difference about this shot as opposed to others (BLOW UP, etc.), is that in most cases, at some point the grain becomes too big to decipher further details. In BLADE RUNNER, there is no grain, and one can zoom in on forever smaller details. Another film is Agnes Varda's ULYSSE, in which she investigates the reasons she took a certain photograph by finding the place, the people and the circumstances involved at the moment it was taken. -Pip Chodorov ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]