“In his installation, ‘Ancient Cinema,’ Henry Jesionka takes on [Hollis] Frampton’s challenge [to invent a metahistory of film] and makes a plausible case for extending the history of cinema to the ancient world. Jesionka fabricates an ancient Roman “film” projector consistent with the sophisticated technological and artistic skills of Greek and Roman artisans at the turn of the millennium. He also presents archaeological ‘evidence’ (inscribed coins, lamps, glass slides) to support his claim. Although the installation is entirely speculative” — READ “FICTION” — “it tackles the very real project of history and its construction. Jesionka creates a ‘missing link’ in the recorded history of cinema to bridge the (unacceptably large) gap between Paleolithic cave art (32,000 BC) and William Lincoln’s zoopraxiscope (1867), the first modern film projector.”