On sentimental journeys

If we look back at the ways in which Victorian illustrators, publishers, critics, and poets themselves adapted and experimented with analogies between poetic and photographic forms, a very different reception history emerges in which Victorian poetry and poetics played an equally fraught and complex role in what could be described, for want of a better phrase, as the proto-cinematic aesthetics of Victorian visual culture.

A Sam Renseiw sepia-tinted Victorian look at a friendly Hong Kong street intersection, complete with color inlay. Watch it emerge by clicking here or enter the metropolis setting, by mouse-touching on the iconic corner above. (patafilm 158, 00'58'', 4.3 MB, mov/quicktime)