Curiously, though, for a director who has famously resisted the visual language of conventional cinema, he did not seem ready to embrace the Internet as a radically new medium.

In terms of its filmic form, it is conventional cinema.

Like many of the director's works, the film does not follow the narrative arc of conventional cinema, with an introduction, conflict and resolution.

That unknown universe does without the trappings of conventional cinema.

Aside from the more conventional cinemas of Ibiza Town, other places that show films on the island are old-fashioned if not picturesque.

But Ray's universal style moves him far from his country's conventional cinema.

Each frame was composed of 17 million pixels, as opposed to the mere 3 million required for conventional cinema.

He suggests people are beginning to tire of conventional multiplex cinemas, which all adhere to the same systematic format and have no real character.

Artists of that time were experimenting with film's formal properties, such as light, motion, and sound, while also separating film art from conventional narrative cinema.

It used bluescreen technology to capture the comic book feel and was released in both conventional cinemas and IMAX in 2007.