Death as Film-Philosophy’s Muse: Deleuzian Observations on Moving Images and the Nature of Time

IF 0.4 3区 艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.3366/film.2023.0227
Susana Viegas
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This article explores the affinities between film and philosophy by returning to a shared meditation on death and the nature of time. Death has been considered the muse of philosophy and can also be considered the muse of film-philosophy. But what does it mean to say that to film-philosophise is to learn to die, or a kind of training for dying? Film is an artistic object that reminds us of death’s inevitability; it is a meditation on the transient and finite nature of time. Films as diverse as Mizoguchi’s Tales of Ugetsu, Resnais’s Hiroshima mon Amour, and Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light take an uncanny approach to the subject, expressing the paradoxical coexistence of life and death and of different temporal dimensions. This article explores the philosophical concept of the death-image and time through a Deleuzian approach to cinema, meditating on the flashback, the coexistence of the present and the past, and the emergence of a new type of Lazarean character – one who returns from the dead. The article aims to clarify not simply death’s unquestionable omnipresence in film but also cinema’s role as a contemporary version of the trope of memento mori.
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死亡是电影哲学的缪斯:德勒兹对运动图像和时间本质的观察
本文通过回归对死亡和时间本质的共同思考来探讨电影与哲学之间的联系。死亡一直被认为是哲学的缪斯,也可以被认为是电影哲学的缪斯。但是,说电影哲学是学习死亡,或者说是一种死亡训练,这意味着什么呢?电影是一种提醒我们死亡不可避免的艺术对象;它是对时间短暂和有限本质的沉思。沟口健二的《宇盖津故事集》、雷奈的《广岛之恋》和Guzmán的《追光之乡》等各种各样的电影都采用了一种离奇的方式来处理这一主题,表达了生与死以及不同时间维度的矛盾共存。本文通过德勒兹式的电影手法,探讨了死亡形象和时间的哲学概念,思考了闪回,现在和过去的共存,以及一种新型的拉扎恩角色的出现-一个从死里复活的人。这篇文章的目的不仅仅是澄清死亡在电影中毫无疑问的无所不在,而且还澄清了电影作为当代版本的死亡纪念的角色。
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