Cinema was born in 1895; in 2015 its original apparatus is no longer among us — thus the world goes, one technique dies, another appears. My research takes place in a moment of transition: I began working on cinema in 1990 and showing it in 1992. In 1993, in Washington, I began a series of photographs showing film frames corroded by time and storage conditions; two years later I exhibited them at MoMA in New York. Since then I view films in Western film libraries and private collections, extracting "decomposed" images without retouching them.