Death of Film by David Lynch

In the last number of LOST magazine there is an article from famous American film director David Lynch. He writes what for him film as medium is dead, and he uses mostly digital video (DV) for his filming experiments, because it's more easier to work with and gives more possibilities for him and even for his actors.

...you have forty-minute takes, automatic focus. They're lightweight. And you can see what you've shot right away. With film you have to go into the lab and you don't know what you've shot until the next day...

...once you start working in that world of DV with small, lightweight equipment and automatic focus, working with film seems so cumbersome. These 35mm film cameras are starting to look like dinosaurs to me...

With all my respect to talented director thats not a great discovery - all this digital technologies give us some new abilities, so why just not use them? ;)