Abstract: Zhang Yimou’s new film One Second not only arouses our memory of the celluloid film era, but also buries that era with the digital technology employed. The screening of celluloid film is reproduced as a ritual behavior, which for the film screening itself has gained great appeal, making all those who participate in watching the film form an image community. However, with the development of digital technology, this image community has lost its foundation and gradually disintegrated, and the new digital technology has reconstructed the relationship between film images and our sensory nervous system. Under the new viewing mode, audience can no longer return to the community experience of watching films together, but to experience, under the new sensory system generated by digital technology, the reproduction of our lives by images in the digital age.

Key words: One Second, celluloid, image community, digitization