An Eye for the Exemplary
An analysis of Sontag's infamous later essay lamenting the death of cinephilia.
The Art of Seeing Rescues the Existence of Things, part 1
The Road Movie meets pure movement in the form of Henri Bergson. Part 1.
The Art of Seeing Rescues the Existence of Things, part 2
The Road Movie meets pure movement in the form of Henri Bergson. Part 2.
Time, Bergson, and the Cinematographical Mechanism
Why is French philosopher Henri Bergson relevant for today's film theory?
Gilles Deleuze’s Bergsonian Film Project : Part 1
In his second book Deleuze tackles temporality in a more direct fashion. Although the book is considerably longer than the first (344 to 250 pages), Deleuze does not propose rigid or neat classifications. The central shift remains from a cinema that defined itself primarily through motion to one that concerned itself more directly with time. The time-image moved beyond motion by freeing itself of the sensory-motor link to a pure optical and sound (tactile) image.
Gilles Deleuze’s Bergsonian Film Project : Part 2
In his second book Deleuze tackles temporality in a more direct fashion. Although the book is considerably longer than the first (344 to 250 pages), Deleuze does not propose rigid or neat classifications. The central shift remains from a cinema that defined itself primarily through motion to one that concerned itself more directly with time. The time-image moved beyond motion by freeing itself of the sensory-motor link to a pure optical and sound (tactile) image.
A Bergsonian Personal Journey into History
The following essay will demonstrate how The Puppetmaster is one of the purest Bergsonian films ever made.
