Autonomy And Time (Alessandro D'Aloia)

Latest thesis added to the Library page of Unspoken Cinema:

"How does time affect the audience of the moving image?

This thesis reimagines a question first posed by film philosopher Gilles Deleuze in Cinema 2: The Time-Image, a question Deleuze attributes to Martin Heidegger and Antonin Artaud: what is it about the moving image that forces us to think? [..]

By exploring how time, rather than affect, shapes our interpretation of a given film, and how that interpretation is, in turn, shaped by the affective residue of past encounters, this thesis identifies a recursive relationship that forms the interpretive horizon through which cinematic meaning gradually emerges as part of an ongoing experience."

"First Recap

1. The perspective of an individual, as reflected in Ciment’s characterisation of slowness, frames what I call a relative aestheticism, wherein the experience of time is shaped by our very own subjective viewpoint.

2. Slowness is a complex theoretical subject that extends beyond film theory, intertwining with the subjective nature of our own experience and the moving image at large.

3. Slowness and time are interchangeable concepts, suggesting that our experience of slowness, like time, is intricately linked to our perspective as an individual.

4. Since affect is so deeply rooted in our own subjective viewpoint, time and affect are therefore interchangeable concepts, and something that is considered more closely in the next chapter on Moving Image."

        Alessandro D'Aloia, Autonomy And Time, March 2024 / Australia