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Chrissie Iles begins her text "Issues in the New Cinematic Aesthetic in Video" by announcing the crossover (or merging) that "has taken place between the languages of video and film. This is, in part, a result of the widespread use of video projection, which has liberated the video image from the spatial restrictions of the monitor and magnified it hundreds of times, creating a movie-sized image that relates not to the object, but to the surrounding architectural space."

Interestingly, she argues that especially many younger artists "have turned to the familiar, reassuring language of the older moving image technology of Hollywood film to make the rapidly disappearing, obsolescent values it represents more visible again. They have done so as a reaction to the traumatic effect of the sweeping power with which new technology has transformed our social and cultural environment into an all-embracing, interconnected, cybernetic force-field."

In the text, she mainly deals with the transformation caused by new technology especially to video installations - from monitors to large-scale, cinematic screens via video projection. In other words, video is now mimicking the qualities of film. She goes on to describe - rather literally - various artists, their work, tools and techniques.