Logos of cinema

pp. 49-89

in: James Batcho, Terrence Malick's unseeing cinema, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Abstract

This chapter proposes a logos of cinema as an unseeing engagement with time, particularly as conceived through Deleuze's terms. His writings on visual aspects of cinematic subjectivity, virtual/actual dynamics, and hodological/crystalline mnemonic states are reworked through audible engagements of simultaneity and coexistence, giving rise to independence and inseparability. Unseeing audibility opens to a logos of signs, an availability of relations with which a film's character may or may not attend. Various logos engagements are explored through the films of Bresson, Tarkovsky, Coppola, and Wenders. Malick's logos is expressed as a reaching forward from what has become lost, a fragmented audible gathering in memory, and a matrix of audible collisions.