Immediacy pushes toward embodied realism despite digital simulation possibilities

Evidence

While the movement to digital video in general might hail an end to the pro-filmic event and a new prominence of simulation and simulacra, one of the hallmarks of immediacy is the response to these possibilities with the counter-embrace of cinematographic techniques that underscore the pro-filmic and the real of embodied human perception and physics. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 215

Categorization

• DEFINE: Narrows what immediate cinematography does — it counters digital simulation by underscoring the pro-filmic real — clarifying a key feature definition.