DOI: 10.4231/7f9r-s567
title: Cinema, Truth, and Time: The Falsifier: Lecture 19, 22 May 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 19, 22 May 1984, Deleuze reviews the shift toward the actual image that ceases its linkage with other actual images, entering into a circuit with the virtual image, forming a consolidated coalescence of actual image and virtual image. He asks: what is this virtual image? and then reviews the three conclusions regarding the recollection-image and the dream-image. With Bergson&rsquo;s help, Deleuze grasps this coalescence as the objective coexistence of present and past, subjective coexistence of perception and recollection, and contemporaneity of both. Deleuze argues that Bergson&rsquo;s &ldquo;mirror reflection&rdquo; is a coalescence between an actual and &lt;em&gt;its own &lt;/em&gt;virtual image, called a crystal-image, the site of an actual-virtual exchange. To develop its 360-degree effect, Deleuze refers to different filmmakers (Losey, Max Ophuls), then expands the crystal-image definition with three pairs or dimensions (virtual-actual; clear-opaque; seed-milieu). Then, an invited speaker, Jouanny (first or last name not indicated) considers the variability of the crystal&rsquo;s properties (anisotropy) and aspects of the process of crystal germination and crystallization.&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 19, le 22 mai 1984, Deleuze passe en revue le passage vers l&rsquo;image r&eacute;elle qui cesse son lien avec d&rsquo;autres images r&eacute;elles et entre dans un circuit avec l&rsquo;image virtuelle, formant une coalescence consolid&eacute;e d&rsquo;image r&eacute;elle et d&rsquo;image virtuelle. Il demande : &laquo; quelle est cette image virtuelle ? &raquo; et passe ensuite en revue les trois conclusions concernant l&rsquo;image-souvenir et l&rsquo;image-r&ecirc;ve. Avec l&rsquo;aide de Bergson, Deleuze saisit cette coalescence comme la coexistence objective du pr&eacute;sent et du pass&eacute;, la coexistence subjective de la perception et du souvenir, et la contemporan&eacute;it&eacute; des deux. Deleuze soutient que le &laquo; reflet miroir &raquo; de Bergson est une coalescence entre une image r&eacute;elle et sa propre image virtuelle, appel&eacute;e image-cristal, le lieu d&rsquo;un &eacute;change r&eacute;el-virtuel. Pour d&eacute;velopper son effet &agrave; 360 degr&eacute;s, Deleuze se r&eacute;f&egrave;re &agrave; diff&eacute;rents cin&eacute;astes (Losey, Max Ophuls), puis &eacute;largit la d&eacute;finition de l&rsquo;image-cristal avec trois paires ou dimensions (virtuel-r&eacute;el ; clair-opaque ; milieu-semence). Ensuite, un conf&eacute;rencier invit&eacute;, Jouanny (nom ou pr&eacute;nom non indiqu&eacute;) aborde la variabilit&eacute; des propri&eacute;t&eacute;s du cristal (anisotropie) et certains aspects du processus de germination et de cristallisation du cristal.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 22 May 1984. This is lecture 19 of a 22-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between November 1983 and June 1984.