Gilles Deleuze's Cinema Books Part 2: The Movement-Image Ch. 1

This is the second installment in a series on Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image. This video spends all of its time on the first chapter of Cinema 1, "Theses on Movement: First Commentary on Bergson."
Included in this video is an overview of the philosophy of Henri Bergson, especially the ideas that are explored in his book Creative Evolution, which is largely the subject of this chapter. Topics discussed include Bergson's notion of "duration" (duree), "intuition," Bergson's critique of scientism, the spatialization of time, the cinematographic illusion, Deleuze's distinction between the technological production of movement and the movement-image, and many others.
*Correction: When I define the "whole" as the "everything," this is a bit misleading. The "whole" is more accurately understood in terms of the word "whole" as we generally oppose to the word "part." It's a truism that "the whole is not equivalent to the sum of its parts," but this is very close to what Deleuze (and Bergson) is getting at with the idea of "the whole." So when Deleuze says "the whole" or "a whole," he's referring to a way of thinking about an entity or a situation that refuses to see it as a collection of parts. This is why duration is conceived of as an "open Whole." And if we think about the movement of the soccer ball in terms of a "whole," we must begin to consider the situation surrounding the soccer ball (i.e. its context) that its movement participates in changing.
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