Gilles Deleuze's Cinema Books Part 2: The Movement-Image Ch. 1

This is the second installment in a series on Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image. This video spends all of its time on the first chapter of Cinema 1, "Theses on Movement: First Commentary on Bergson."
Included in this video is an overview of the philosophy of Henri Bergson, especially the ideas that are explored in his book Creative Evolution, which is largely the subject of this chapter. Topics discussed include Bergson's notion of "duration" (duree), "intuition," Bergson's critique of scientism, the spatialization of time, the cinematographic illusion, Deleuze's distinction between the technological production of movement and the movement-image, and many others.
*Correction: When I define the "whole" as the "everything," this is a bit misleading. The "whole" is more accurately understood in terms of the word "whole" as we generally oppose to the word "part." It's a truism that "the whole is not equivalent to the sum of its parts," but this is very close to what Deleuze (and Bergson) is getting at with the idea of "the whole." So when Deleuze says "the whole" or "a whole," he's referring to a way of thinking about an entity or a situation that refuses to see it as a collection of parts. This is why duration is conceived of as an "open Whole." And if we think about the movement of the soccer ball in terms of a "whole," we must begin to consider the situation surrounding the soccer ball (i.e. its context) that its movement participates in changing.
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[@Kinomainak]

Hey Jordan, just wanted to tell you- these are super helpful and valuable. Thank you!

[@filmandmediastudieschannel]

thank you!

[@casasoho1024]

Amazing. Simply amazing, first time Deleuze appears comprehensible to me.

[@filmandmediastudieschannel]

love to hear it!

[@Fullhouse1995]

You made my day, life, week, semester idk I'm just so glad I didn't have to tackle this text on my own

[@kyawzayyarlwin8003]

Great job and please do the videos on Bataille’s limit experience and horror movies

[@ilybel]

I'm french and it was for me more comprehensible with your explanations... in english ! Thank you very very much!!

[@filmandmediastudieschannel]

Glad it was helpful! I've heard some people read (late) Deleuze for the first time and say "Oh this is so confusing/difficult, it must be a translation issue..." Nope...

[@kazaiinababita]

oh thank u i was about to stop my study becuase of that book

[@lauradubsky-ng3tf]

Thank you so much!! Your explanations have helped me so much, so appreciative.

[@inbfu1513]

But you didn't answer clearly why Deleuze believes that any-instant-whatever is different and ... at 28:20. would you please provide it?

[@Kalashnikovification]

These are great! Congratulations on the videos. Just a small remark, you sometimes add the page number to your slides but sometimes they are missing. Would you be so kind as to add the page numbers of the citation at 22:34 please? Thank you again for the insightful explanations. :D

[@filmandmediastudieschannel]

Hi there - thanks for your interest in the videos. I don't always get around to adding page numbers, but I have a pretty easy method for finding them when I need them. I just go to google books, find the book in question (in this case Cinema 1), and search for a specific phrase in the passage I'm looking for, say "equidistance of snapshots." This way anybody can find the passage in its context regardless of what edition they're using.

[@ilovepavement1]

Im still a complete novice with this stuff but Deleuze's cinema theory appears to be lifted wholesale from Bakhtin.

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[@eliasnilsson597]

Big fan of these videos. Helps me understand these books much better and have major breakthroughs. Will there be a part 4?

[@filmandmediastudieschannel]

awesome - glad to hear it! originally that was the plan to make a part 4 and it still might happen, just not sure when.

[@iju_art]

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[@duygukaya846]

It's been a great pleasure stumbling upon you, thanks so much for all the labour you put into this work. I can't help thinking about how you can manage all the elaborate illustrations and all the other technicality on top of the great content you offer :) Hats off! I have been writing my master's thesis for the past months and today I asked my professor if I could quote you. Well, you'll be mentioned in a thesis written in Turkish. Access to knowledge is one of the few blessed things of the 21st century. Thanks so much again!

[@filmandmediastudieschannel]

Thanks so much! I'm very glad to be cited in your thesis! What is it on, if you don't mind my asking?

[@duygukaya846]

@@filmandmediastudieschannel I submitted it and the defence was a success as well. :) I wrote on reality in the cinema (I was following a similar chain of thoughts to that of Richard Rushton's in his book The Reality of Film) and on Béla Tarr's cinema as my case study. Time-image is his forte and your work helped me a lot to better understand Deleuze, to connect the dots in the end.

[@filmandmediastudieschannel]

@@duygukaya846 Congratulations! Sounds like an interesting project. I think Rushton's "Reality" book is really good, and if I were to endorse a book for folks just starting out with trying to understand Deleuze's cinema books, I'd recommend his Cinema after Deleuze as the first thing to read. Tarr is also a great filmmaker!

[@duygukaya846]

@@filmandmediastudieschannel Thank you :) And I definitely agree with you on Rushton. He has a style/structure of writing that is designed to make the topic as explicit as possible, beside being quite interdisciplinary and intertextual. After a short break, I'll focus on the PhD process. I am sure I'll find myself here every now and then. 😊

[@filmandmediastudieschannel]

@@duygukaya846 Yes I agree about Rushton's writing - refreshingly clear. Good luck on the pursuit of the PhD!