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TIME—IMAGE

L’IMAGE–TEMPS / THE TIME–IMAGE

Time escapes subordination to movement: action fails, actual and virtual form a circuit, and the interval between sound and image forces thought.

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An open research programme for scholars, students, curators, makers, and film viewers.

20core concepts
22chapters across both volumes
61translation terms
34Chinese corpus gates
75verifiable scholars
92tiered film cases
88source gateways
32scene evidence records
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START HERE / ORIENTATION

Where do you enter?

Choose an entry at your reading pace; every path connects text, shot, and evidence.

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Concept atlas

Term-by-term distinctions beyond slowness, flashback, and mirror motifs.

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Two-volume guide

Exact headings across both volumes, edition pagination, and ten Cinema 2 problems.

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Relation maps

Mark primary relations, secondary reconstructions, cross-text syntheses, and E1 models.

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Film atlas

Mark primary, scholarly, and atlas cases with P1 / P2 / S1 / E1.

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Scene evidence

Join image, sound, action, time, primary pages, and viewing access in one scene record.

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Scholar map

From system reconstruction to world cinemas, bodies, digitality, and death.

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Translation glossary

Compare French, English, and Chinese terms with documented atlas terms and edition evidence.

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Chinese corpus

Index Chinese community translations and cinema pages with primary-text links.

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Books & editions

Verify originals, published translations, and legal access for 29 works.

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Research library

French editions, standard translations, seminar audio, papers, and open issues.

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Seminars & practice

Turn seeing, crystals, sheets, cuts, and sound autonomy into production exercises.

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THE DECISIVE REVERSAL

The decisive reversal

The time-image reverses the subordination of time to movement.

Three relational criteriaAction failsActual ↔ virtualTime appears directly
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CORE CONCEPTS / READ PRECISELY

Six conceptual hinges

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Sensory-motor schema

sensory-motor schema

The body-world structure that links perception, affection, and action into an effective circuit. Its crisis begins when perception fails to lead naturally to an action capable of resolving the situation.

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Pure optical / sound situation

opsign / sonsign

Sound and image acquire autonomous density beyond cues for action or narration. The character becomes a seer or witness, reaching a threshold condition of the time-image.

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Actual / virtual

actual / virtual

The actual is what has been actualized; the virtual consists of differential relations, memories, and tendencies that remain fully real and operative before actualization. They are two states of the real, distinct from possible/real and true/false.

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Crystal-image

crystal-image / hyalosign

An actual image and its virtual image form the smallest circuit: two faces differentiate, pursue, and exchange with one another until they become indiscernible while remaining distinct. The circuit lets us see the present split into an actual present and a coexisting virtual past.

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Sheets of the past

sheets of the past

The past consists of coexisting planes at different degrees of contraction. Recollection selects a sheet from the whole past.

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Powers of the false

powers of the false

Narration abandons a recoverable model of truth and lets characters, testimonies, memories, and worlds mutate through a series of falsifiers. The false gains creative power by freeing itself from a model of truth.

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AN OPEN FIELD

Research begins in disagreement

Unresolved problems keep this field in motion.

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Is 1945 a rupture or a model?

Postwar Europe is a crucial constellation within the time-image’s multiple global sites of emergence.

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Replacement or coexistence?

The time-image reverses the subordination of time to movement; both regimes persist and can shift locally within one film.

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How can the field de-centre Europe?

World cinemas de-centre the field by modifying the taxonomy itself.

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Taxonomy or generator?

Fixed labels invite mere example-hunting; an open taxonomy requires new concepts to transform existing relations and explain across cases.

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Does the digital require a Cinema 3?

The neuro-image, no-time-image, and interface theories test the boundary, but no third regime has achieved consensus.

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PRIMARY SOURCES FIRST

Primary text before commentary

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L’Image-temps. Cinéma 2

Gilles Deleuze

Official French source for the time-image’s synopsis, chapter architecture, and stable conceptual vocabulary.

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Cinema 2: The Time-Image

Gilles Deleuze; trans. Hugh Tomlinson & Robert Galeta

Authoritative source for the standard translation, translators, ISBN, and publication date.

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Cinema, Truth and Time: The Falsifier, 1983–1984

Gilles Deleuze

Primary background for powers of the false, temporal crisis, Leibniz, Nietzsche, Welles, and the series of falsifiers.

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Matter and Memory

Henri Bergson

Foundational for the universe of images, perception, bodily interval, pure past, memory cone, and actual/virtual relations.

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Difference and Repetition

Gilles Deleuze

Key bridge for the syntheses of time, actual/virtual, repetition, and image of thought; the nine-cell mapping is a later interpretation.

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Death-Images: Revisiting Deleuze’s ‘Time-Image’ in Cinema after 1985

Nassif, Grosoli, Marques & Viegas, eds.

Open-access issue marking forty years of Cinema 2 through death, genocide, Kiarostami, Ceylan, archives, and Global South cinemas.

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P4 THEATER · FORTHCOMING PROGRAMMES

From philosophical reading to shot practice

The research seminar handles close reading, concepts, and films. The practice lab turns sensory-motor rupture, crystalline circuits, sheets of past, irrational cuts, and audio-visual autonomy into executable exercises.

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A LIVING EDITION

A verifiable working method

Scholar counts use bounded conservative samples; films carry evidence tiers; terms retain French and English keys; links prioritize publishers, universities, journals, film institutions, and rights holders.

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