Cinema and Church

It is interesting how lots of churches are converted into cinema and back to churches as time goes by. It is save to say that the type of building use is similar. All the viewers and church goers focused on the screen and the altar for a delivery of certain message or information. In the delivery of a sermon, the pastor or the preacher brings the believers through words to attention of spiritual matters in their life. The intangible things about heaven or hell as places, the unseen matters, of spirits and energies. In cinema the filmmaker and the movie maker is also conveying to the audience through imagery the chimeras of the story and the emotional content in drama, about the human conditions or fantastic dimension of human imaginations. When the pastor uses words to transport the church goer, the filmmaker uses images and sounds. The audience experiences a time past and mind expanded or turned through the delivery of the content. The act of worship in church is not focused on the message delivered but the source of the message that is the creator. Again the act of worship for cinema is not for the moving image on screen but the life enhancing human spirit that is celebrated in the medium of cinema, the human struggle, knowledge and connection with the mysterious divine makes cinema an ever fascinating medium. Even with new technologies, the original intent of cinema never dwindle, only be transformed and transmuted into new forms, such as game or virtual reality. The core value to deliver the narrative experience through the medium does not change.