农村观影活动曾经是中国农村最重要的集体活动之一,其中所生发的观看之众的集体性,关乎着乡村如何告别宗族为本,走向国家认同为基,标记了农村从传统走入现代的重要时刻。通过梳理这一时刻的复杂性,本文尝试重新思考农村放映经验在中国电影研究中的本体位置,将首先借助西方早期电影研究的范式,通过对比农村和城市放映的差异, Rural viewing activity was once one of the most important collective activities in China’s rural areas. The collectiveness of the audiences in which the countryside was born was related to how the countryside bid farewell to the clan-based and to the national identity as the base, marking the transition from traditional to rural areas An important moment in modern times. By combing the complexity of this moment, this paper tries to reconsider the ontology position of rural screening experience in Chinese film research. First, with the paradigm of western early film research, by comparing the differences between rural and urban projection,