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What characterizes gesture is that in it nothing is being produced or acted, but rather something is being endured and supported. The gesture, in other words, opens the sphere of [...]

The article discusses a collection of written records in the context of cinema, labor, and aesthetics. The written account addresses two sets of commonplaces such as the work and its configuration are ambiguously central to the history of cinema from Louis Lumiere's "Workers Leaving the Factory" and onward. The other commonplace implies that human labor often remains the repressed of filmic representation.

The article discusses the stand of authors and critics regarding contemporary cinephilia. Majority of them assess more the contemporary status and conditions of possibility of cinephilia rather than overtly advocating critical positions. They emphasize how technological changes in the media/image industries have transformed spectatorship. Several authors claim that digital technology has changed filmmaking and cinephilia with it.