If Only He Went Digital, Imagine the Possibilities

Plato banned poets from his ideal city, but only because the poets he knew glorified vice. I don’t think Plato would have banned filmmaker James Benning (“Just Look,” by Akiva Gottlieb, Nov. 6), since Benning seems to make movies as part of a search for something beautiful and virtuous. But by not going digital, Benning has in effect banned himself from everyone who does not attend film festivals. What would Plato have said?

Kenneth Michael White

Upland