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Deleuze’s Struggle With Clichés, Or a Couple of Words On Searching For Visibility In Cinema

Author(s): Adam Cichoń
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Deleuze Gilles

Summary/Abstract: One of the central problems of Gilles Deleuze’s book devoted to cinematography are clichés that the French philosopher contrasts with real images. This distinction has a fundamental impact on Deleuze’s deliberations. Clichés understood as impoverished images represent broadly understood mainstream cinema, especially American cinema. The philosopher wants – as he expresses it – to snatch the images from clichés. In his investigations he finds such a possibility, among others, thanks to films by Antonioni. The research carried out by Deleuze seem to coincide with the contemporary trends in art cinema, which we might call the search for a new cinema. A special example of this is slow cinema, a trend in cinematography that seeks what Deleuze would call true visibility. This article is an attempt to apply Gilles Deleuze’s theory of cinema to the description of slow cinema and to show a specific – contemplative – attitude towards film image.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 101-102
  • Page Range: 249-261
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish