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This paper aims to search for an origin of the concept of the space-image that I suggests as a 21st century regime of cinematic images, not just within its digital territory but beyond, both historically and technologically. For this exploration, the paper will revisit Eadweard Muybridge’s experiments of electrically automated instantaneous photography in 1878 and his ‘foreshortening’ technique, which I argue is a sequential photographic attempt in the axis of space for the first time in the history of image. I will network conceptually the foreshortening in 1878 with the Wachowskis’ bullet-time cinematographic technique in their 1999 seminal work of film The Matrix, which will be discussed as one that perfected the unrealized idea of image to capture space itself volumetrically with photography and open up the new era of post-cinema. Finally the effect of spatial immersion will be suggested as an affective element for spectators, being formed when the space-image actively operates in diegetic worlds.
