IMAGE → TIME

GILLES DELEUZE — IMAGE AND TIME

Transversal theoretical connection: Deleuze’s cinema philosophy, especially Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image, provides a major conceptual route from image → time.

The image need not merely represent an action unfolding in chronological time. It can make duration, interval, suspension, memory, waiting, rupture and multiple temporalities perceptible through framing, movement, montage and the relation between actual and virtual.

This connection is especially relevant where an image ceases to be a static representation and becomes a temporal event: the body-image can hold a before and after; stillness can expose duration; montage can produce time as a relation rather than a background; the image can become a site where perception is reorganised.

Keep this as a conceptual connection rather than reducing Deleuze to a generic theory of film. The useful question for Clarisse is:

How does an image begin to perform time rather than merely depict it?