Shrinking time between impulse and capture is experienced as aesthetic energy

Evidence

As soon as I feel it, I want to shoot it. And so, that’s one of the biggest benefits of this method—the time from the idea to seeing an iteration of it is incredibly short, like a minute, like, maybe less. For me, the energy that that creates on set, and I think on screen, is huge. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 217

Categorization

• CANDY: A quotable artist quote compressing the core immediacy thesis into one line.
• SEED: The collapse of time-from-idea-to-iteration is an angle: compare Soderbergh’s minute-long latency to pre-digital workflows where conception and exposure were separated by crew scheduling and processing.