DOI: 10.4231/my4a-j620
title: Cinema, Truth, and Time: The Falsifier: Lecture 12, 28 February 1984

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, Truth, and Time: The Falsifier&rdquo; was a 22-lecture seminar given from November 1983 to June 1984. This seminar, the third of four consecutive seminars Deleuze gave on cinema, shifts focus from the movement-image to the time-image. In these lectures, Deleuze continues to elaborate his theory of cinema through various theoretical and aesthetic frames including: Ancient Greek philosophy; Nietzsche&rsquo;s reconsideration of the concept of truth; principles of formal logic; literature; the time-image as crystallization; and the filmmakers he thinks are particularly influential in creating the time-image. As a precursor to the publication of Deleuze&rsquo;s second of two volumes on cinema, &lt;em&gt;Cinema 2: The Time-Image&lt;/em&gt; (1985), 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 session 12, 28 February 1984, after reviewing key point on time and the hierarchy of &ldquo;sublunar creatures&rdquo;, Deleuze moves beyond Greece to Plotinus and Neo-Platonism, no longer the world and its movement, but the soul (time&rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;ratio essendi&lt;/em&gt;). Deleuze contrasts the Egyptian monoplanar perspective, to conceptions of volume and depth, between the Greek formal configuration and the element of light with the particular chromatism of Egyptian and Byzantine art. Returning to Plotinus and the depth or profound as &ldquo;depthless&rdquo; &lt;em&gt;sans-fond&lt;/em&gt;, and how for Plotinus, light creates form, Deleuze links this to a more contemporary artist influenced by Byzantine art, Delaunay, to his transformations beyond Cubism in order to make a connection to the Plotinian revolution regarding Time.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This dataset includes: the complete French transcription and English translation of the recorded lecture in Open Document Text (odt) format, the complete recording in mp3 format, and the original Paris 8 French transcript.&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;Cin&eacute;ma, v&eacute;rit&eacute; et temps: le faussaire&raquo; &eacute;tait un s&eacute;minaire de 22 conf&eacute;rences donn&eacute; de novembre 1983 &agrave; juin 1984. En tant que pr&eacute;curseur de la publication du deuxi&egrave;me de deux volumes de Deleuze sur le cin&eacute;ma, &lt;em&gt;Cin&eacute;ma II. L&#39;Image-temps&lt;/em&gt; (1985), 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 s&eacute;ance 12, le 28 f&eacute;vrier 1984, apr&egrave;s avoir pass&eacute; en revue les points cl&eacute;s sur le temps et la hi&eacute;rarchie des &laquo; cr&eacute;atures sublunaires &raquo;, Deleuze va au-del&agrave; des Grecs pour s&rsquo;int&eacute;resser &agrave; Plotin et au n&eacute;oplatonisme, non plus au monde et &agrave; son mouvement, mais &agrave; l&rsquo;&acirc;me (le &lt;em&gt;ratio essendi&lt;/em&gt; du temps). Deleuze oppose la perspective monoplanaire &eacute;gyptienne aux conceptions du volume et de la profondeur, entre la configuration formelle grecque et l&rsquo;&eacute;l&eacute;ment lumineux et le chromatisme particulier de l&rsquo;art &eacute;gyptien et byzantin. Revenant &agrave; Plotin, &agrave; la profondeur ou au profond comme &laquo; sans-fond &raquo;, et &agrave; la fa&ccedil;on dont pour Plotin la lumi&egrave;re cr&eacute;e la forme, Deleuze relie cela &agrave; un artiste plus contemporain influenc&eacute; par l&rsquo;art byzantin, Delaunay, &agrave; ses transformations au-del&agrave; du cubisme afin d&rsquo;&eacute;tablir un lien avec la r&eacute;volution plotinienne concernant le Temps.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 28 February 1984. This is lecture 12 of a 22-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between November 1983 and June 1984.