DOI: 10.4231/dt6y-xv67
title: Cinema, Truth, and Time: The Falsifier: Lecture 4, 06 December 1983

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 4, 6 December 1983, Deleuze develops a session for summarizing the previous sessions, emphasizing three themes: first, the indiscernibility of the real and the imaginary; the indiscernibility of true and false, with two paradoxical aspects: from the possible emerges the impossible, and also that which is or has been, is not necessarily true; third, the crisis of truth is linked to the emergence of the time-image (cf. Welles, Resnais, and Third World cinemas). Then, referring to links between truth and time, he considers two interviews with Antonioni, and then introduces three texts from Nietzsche&rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;The Gay Science&lt;/em&gt;. The session then shifts to a question-answer session, most notably a key intervention by Georges Comtesse, and then Deleuze concludes by soliciting volunteers from the participants to undertake oral and/or written projects on an expanded list of projects: 1) crystallography, 2) Melville&rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;The Confidence-Man&lt;/em&gt;, 3) the time-image in Welles &amp; Resnais, 4) Nietzsche&rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;The Gay Science, The Twilight of the Idols, &lt;/em&gt;and &lt;em&gt;Zarathustra; &lt;/em&gt;5) five dialogues by Plato (cited on 8 November) and 6) for any logicians, consideration of theories of description and narration, particularly from the perspective developed by G&eacute;rard Genette.&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 4, le 6 d&eacute;cembre 1983, Deleuze d&eacute;veloppe une s&eacute;ance de synth&egrave;se des s&eacute;ances pr&eacute;c&eacute;dentes, en insistant sur trois th&egrave;mes : d&rsquo;abord, l&rsquo;indiscernabilit&eacute; du r&eacute;el et de l&rsquo;imaginaire ; l&rsquo;indiscernabilit&eacute; du vrai et du faux, avec deux aspects paradoxaux : du possible surgit l&rsquo;impossible, et aussi ce qui est ou a &eacute;t&eacute;, n&rsquo;est pas n&eacute;cessairement vrai ; troisi&egrave;mement, la crise de la v&eacute;rit&eacute; est li&eacute;e &agrave; l&rsquo;&eacute;mergence de l&rsquo;image-temps (cf. Welles, Resnais et les cin&eacute;mas du tiers-monde). Puis, se r&eacute;f&eacute;rant aux liens entre v&eacute;rit&eacute; et temps, il consid&egrave;re deux entretiens avec Antonioni, puis introduit trois textes du &lt;em&gt;Gai savoir&lt;/em&gt; de Nietzsche. La s&eacute;ance se poursuit ensuite avec des questions-r&eacute;ponses, notamment avec une intervention cl&eacute; de Georges Comtesse, puis Deleuze conclut en sollicitant des volontaires parmi les participants pour entreprendre des projets oraux et/ou &eacute;crits sur une liste &eacute;largie de projets : 1) la cristallographie, 2) &lt;em&gt;The Confidence Man&lt;/em&gt; de Melville, 3) l&rsquo;image-temps chez Welles et Resnais, 4) &lt;em&gt;Le Gai savoir, Le Cr&eacute;puscule des idoles et Zarathoustra&lt;/em&gt; de Nietzsche ; 5) cinq dialogues de Platon (cit&eacute;s le 8 novembre) et 6) pour les logiciens, la consid&eacute;ration des th&eacute;ories de la description et de la narration, notamment dans la perspective d&eacute;velopp&eacute;e par G&eacute;rard Genette.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 06 December 1983. This is lecture 4 of a 22-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between November 1983 and June 1984.