26 September 2010

Synchronicity, yet again...

My brother recently asked about the (social interaction) process by which I arrived at the "On the bench" photographs. (Several others have asked related questions.)

In the course of answering, yesterday morning, I made reference to portraiture as a joint enterprise between portrayer and portrayed (in this case, photographer and subject). While still thinking about that, I found the following Unreal Nature extract from Deleuze's Cinema 2: The Time-Image:

… The author takes a step towards his characters, but the characters take a step towards the author: double becoming. Story-telling is not an impersonal myth, but neither is it a personal fiction: it is a word in act, a speech-act through which the character continually crosses the boundary …

Which seems much the same thing ... and could apply as much to characters in a novel as in a film. Perhaps all arts are a similar contract. Perhaps social interaction itself is, too.


  • Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 2 : the time-image. 2005, London: Continuum. 0826477062. (Original: Cinéma II: L'image-temps, Collection "Critique", 1985, Paris; first English trans 1989).

2 comments:

Julie Heyward said...

[little black dot] Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 2 : the time-image, 1989, University of Minnesota Press. 0816616760 (v.2) and 0816616779 (pbk; v.2) (First published as Cinéma 2: L'image-temps,1985 by Les Editions de Minuet, Paris)

Felix said...

Julie − I love that [little black dot]!

:-)

We seem to have different editions, there and here...