DOI: 10.4231/fz47-g474
title: Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, Lecture 16, 27 April 1982

description: &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Deleuze Seminars&lt;/em&gt; is a collection of audio recordings, transcriptions, and English translations of, and supplemental materials from, the lectures French philosopher Gilles Deleuze gave during his career at the University of Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&ldquo;Cinema 1: The Movement-Image&rdquo; was a 21-lecture seminar given from November 1981 to June 1982. This seminar marks the first of four consecutive seminars in which Deleuze presents his theory of film. Here, in large part through the philosophy of Henri Bergson, Deleuze rethinks film as a movement-image, as opposed to a succession of still frames or photographic images. Throughout the course he references a wide variety of filmmakers, critics, and philosophers. As a precursor to the publication of Deleuze&rsquo;s first of two volumes on cinema, &lt;em&gt;Cinema 1: The Movement-Image&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Cin&eacute;ma 1. L&#39;Image-Mouvement&lt;/em&gt;, 1983), this seminar is a valuable resource to researchers interested in Deleuze&rsquo;s film theory, as well as his larger philosophical oeuvre.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the 27 April 1982 lecture, Deleuze discusses the two forms of the action-image: 1) S-A-S&#39; (situation-action-situation modified; from the situation to the duel), or the large form of the action-image, either spiral (&lt;em&gt;spiralique&lt;/em&gt;) or ethical, with consideration of the epic and the western; and 2) A-S-A&#39; (from the index to the situation), or the small form, the elliptical, with consideration of the comedy. Other topics of discussion include: French philosopher and physician Georges Canguilhem and his &lt;em&gt;Knowledge of Life&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;La Connaissance de la vie&lt;/em&gt;); the milieu; encyclopedias; new concepts in Enlightenment (eighteenth century) science; remote action (&lt;em&gt;l&#39;action &agrave; distance&lt;/em&gt;); the English scientist and natural philosopher Isaac Newton; the intermediary between two bodies; S-A-S&#39; as ethics, the vital breath (&lt;em&gt;le souffle vital&lt;/em&gt;) and aesthetics; the line of the universe, vector space, the disappearing of things and the search for the frame; French mathematical philosopher and escaped prisoner of war Albert Lautman; the concept of existence in mathematics; the local and the global; and German mathematician Bernhard Riemann, spaces, and events.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The new version of this dataset includes: the English translation and French transcription in Open Document Text (odt) format, an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, and the original Paris-8 French transcription of the recorded lecture. The first version, also available, includes the translation and transcription in pdf and txt format and the audio recording. The aggregate audio file has been downsampled.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Note that this is a truncated session (with part two missing and no recording available), and since the following lecture commences within examination of the &ldquo;small form&rdquo;, in chapter 10 of &lt;em&gt;The Movement-Image&lt;/em&gt;, what gets lost due to the missing text (and recording) seems to correspond to chapter 11, part 3 (a section titled &quot;The Two Spaces: The breath-Encompasser and the line of the Universe&quot;) since Deleuze will refer extensively to this very segment throughout the opening part of session 11, Cinema year 2 (22 February 1983).&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Les S&eacute;minaires de Deleuze&lt;/em&gt; sont une collection d&#39;enregistrements audio, de transcriptions et de traductions en anglais et de documents compl&eacute;mentaires des conf&eacute;rences que le philosophe fran&ccedil;ais Gilles Deleuze a donn&eacute; lors de sa carri&egrave;re &agrave; l&#39;Universit&eacute; de Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&laquo;L&rsquo;image-mouvement, Leҫons bergsoniennes sur le cin&eacute;ma&raquo; &eacute;tait un s&eacute;minaire de 21 conf&eacute;rences donn&eacute; de novembre 1981 &agrave; juin 1982. Ce s&eacute;minaire marque le premier de quatre s&eacute;minaires cons&eacute;cutifs dans lesquels Deleuze pr&eacute;sente sa th&eacute;orie du film. Ici, en grande partie gr&acirc;ce &agrave; la philosophie d&#39;Henri Bergson, Deleuze repense le film comme un image-mouvement, par opposition &agrave; une succession d&#39;images fixes ou d&#39;images photographiques. Tout au long du cours, il fait r&eacute;f&eacute;rence &agrave; une grande vari&eacute;t&eacute; des cin&eacute;astes, des critiques et des philosophes. En tant que pr&eacute;curseur de la publication des premiers volumes de Deleuze sur le cin&eacute;ma, &lt;em&gt;Cin&eacute;ma 1. L&#39;Image-Mouvement &lt;/em&gt;(1983), ce s&eacute;minaire est une ressource pr&eacute;cieuse pour les chercheurs int&eacute;ress&eacute;s par la th&eacute;orie du film de Deleuze, ainsi que sa plus grande &oelig;uvre philosophique.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Dans la conf&eacute;rence du 27 avril 1982, Deleuze discute des deux formes de l&rsquo;image-action: 1) S-A-S&#39; (situation-action-situation modifi&eacute;e, de la situation au duel), ou la grande forme de l&#39;image-action, ou spiralique ou &eacute;thique, avec consid&eacute;ration de l&#39;&eacute;pique et du western; et 2) A-S-A&#39; (de l&#39;indice &agrave; la situation), ou la petite forme, l&#39;elliptique, avec consid&eacute;ration de la com&eacute;die. Les autres sujets de discussion comprennent: le philosophe et m&eacute;decin fran&ccedil;ais Georges Canguilhem et sa &lt;em&gt;La Connaissance de la vie&lt;/em&gt;; le milieu; les encyclop&eacute;dies; de notions nouvelle au XVIIIe si&egrave;cle; l&#39;action &agrave; distance; le scientifique et philosophe naturel anglais Isaac Newton; l&#39;interm&eacute;diaire entre deux corps; S-A-S&#39; comme &eacute;thique, le souffle vital et l&#39;esth&eacute;tique; la ligne de l&#39;univers, l&#39;espace vecteur, le dispara&icirc;tre des choses et la recherche de l&rsquo;ossature; Philosophe math&eacute;matique fran&ccedil;ais et prisonnier de guerre &eacute;vad&eacute; Albert Lautman; la notion d&#39;existence en math&eacute;matiques; le local et le global; et le math&eacute;maticien allemand Bernhard Riemann, les espaces et les &eacute;v&eacute;nements.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 27 April 1982. This is lecture 16 of a 21-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between November 1981 and June 1982.