Monet, Lumière and cinematic time

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Worlds ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 42-65
Author(s):  
Laura McMahon

This chapter develops key aspects of the book’s theoretical framework, moving between philosophies of animal worlds and Deleuze’s account of cinematic time. It draws on the concept of the Umwelt proposed by Uexküll, and the different responses to this concept offered by Heidegger and Deleuze and Guattari. Focusing in particular on Deleuze and Guattari’s reworking of the Umwelt as a process of ‘desubjectified’ assemblages, the chapter links this to Deleuze’s thinking of the time-image as a shift from subject to world, and as a realm that is intricately bound up with questions of differing, becoming and the virtual. While suggesting ways of thinking through links between Deleuze, cinema and the slow animal film, the chapter also turns to recent accounts of the relation between animals and film, by Burt, Pick, Lippit, Sobchack and others. Engaging with yet also moving beyond the recourse to Bazin that has tended to shape the field thus far, it emphasises what Deleuze’s theory of cinematic time can add to this developing body of work, as well as what a more detailed and wide-ranging account of Deleuze and Guattari’s model of animal worlds can contribute to the field of critical animal studies.


2009 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Andrius Gudauskas

Modernios komunikacijos priemonės imasi ryžtingai dalyvauti filosofijos mokslo diskurse. Šiame kontekste filosofas Gilles Deleuze ypač išskiria kino filmų vaidmenį, nes dažnai būtent šiuolaikiniai kino režisieriai ryžtingai tiesia tiltą tarp kino meno ir filosofijos. Moderniame kine, pasitelkus kinematografinę techniką, keliami ir formuojami nauji aktualūs filosofiniai klausimai. Matome, kad A. Tarkovskio filmuose rutuliojama esminė filosofinė idėja yra fundamentali amžinojo laiko idėja. Šiame straipsnyje kinematografinio laiko ir jo tėkmės pristatymo problema aptariama sąlytyje su filosofine Deleuze kino teorija ir komunikacijos filosofija apskritai. Tarkovskio kinematografinė mintis evoliucionuoja kuriant tam tikrą oponavimo poziciją materialistinei dialektinei S. Eizenšteino kino teorijai. Sampratai, redukuojančiai laiką kine į faktologinį ir mechanistinį ritmą, Tarkovskis priešpriešina tikroviškos ir nenutrūkstamos laiko tėkmės užfiksavimo ilgame plane (plan-séquence) praktinę bei teorinę koncepciją. Ilgi ir paskiri planai suardo racionalią klasikinę kino filmo struktūrą ir įgyvendina jame „iracionalų trūkį“. Analizuojama, kaip pavieniai ilgi kino planai, išsilaisvinę iš racionalių tarpusavio saitų, įgyvendina laikiškumo šukių: praeities,sapnų, atsiminimų ir pan. ontologinę bei konvergencinę jungtį nenutrūkstamo laiko tėkmėje.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: kinematografinis planas, kino montažas, komunikacija, filosofinė kino teorija, realus laikas, abstraktus laikas, vaizdas-judesys (image-mouvement), vaizdas-laikas (image-temps), ilgas planas (plan-séquence), trukmė (durée), laiko „presavimas“.Communicational meditation or cinema as a philosophical structure. Confrontation between a film director (Tarkovsky) and a philosopher (Deleuze)Andrius Gudauskas SummaryThe modern mass media are trying to take an active part in the philosophical scientific discourse. In this context, philosopher Gilles Deleuze makes a special emphasis on the role of films, because contemporary cinema directors are truly resolute in building bridges between cinema as an art and philosophy. Due to cinematic technologies, philosophical questions of new importance are being raised in modern cinema. The essential philosophical idea found in Tarkovsky’s films is the fundamental idea of eternal time. This article discusses the problem of representing cinematic time and its flow in relationship with Deleuze’s philosophical theory of cinema as well as with the general philosophy of communication. Tarkovsky’s cinematic thought evolves while creating a certain kind of opposotion to Eizenstein’s dialectically materealistic theory of cinema. Installing the true and continuous flow of time in a long plan-séquence, Tarkovsky opposes his practical and theoretical conception which reduces cinematic time to the factological and mechanistic rhythm alone. Thus, his prolonged separate planes destroy the rational classical structure of the film and introduces an “irrational break” into it. We analyze the ways how separate long plan-sequences liberated from their rational mutual ties, can present in the course of continuos flow of time the ontological and convergent links between such pieces of temporality as past reminiscences and dreams. Key words: cinematic plan, cinema montage, communication, philosophy of cinema, real time, abstract time, image-mouvement, image-temps, planséquence, duration (durée), pressing of time.


2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (47) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stiegler Bernard

Stiegler argued in Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise (the third volume of Technics and Time) that we must refer to archi-cinema just as Derrida spoke of archi-writing. In this article he proposes that in principle the dream is the primordial form of this archi-cinema. The archi-cinema of consciousness, of which dreams would be the matrix as archi-cinema of the unconscious, is the projection resulting from the play between what Husserl called, on the one hand, primary and secondary retentions, and what Stiegler, on the other hand, calls tertiary retentions, which are the hypomnesic traces (that is, the mnemo-technical traces) of conscious and unconscious life. There is archi-cinema to the extent that for any noetic act – for example, in an act of perception – consciousness projects its object. This projection is a montage, of which tertiary (hypomnesic) retentions form the fabric, as well as constituting both the supports and the cutting room. This indicates that archi-cinema has a history, a history conditioned by the history of tertiary retentions. It also means that there is an organology of dreams.


2012 ◽  
pp. 143-176
Author(s):  
Markos Hadjioannou
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