Are we talking about today's film/mom pop as the foil or counterpoint to our 'knowledge' of an idealized past where mom and pop's were intrinsic to the culture and film was like cambell's soup? If the artist forces us to see it as film (as in: shot on 16mm enlarged so the grain is apparent) and we are able to connect in our minds the state of each then I'd agree. It is easy to do with a tintype (although I have issues with cowboys on tintypes) not so easy with modern film. If we need to read the prologue to know that we're looking at film then it fails in my mind.
Idealization of the past may not apply. We are talking about the state of these things today. |