Marguerite Duras / 玛格丽特·杜拉斯 · 1976
Her Venetian Name in Deserted Calcutta
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
The soundtrack of India Song is placed over a different field of ruins. Names remain in an earlier stratum of memory while the ruins belong to another present; sound and image do not coincide on-screen and approach one another only at their limits.
Film details
- Original title
- Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
- Director
- Marguerite Duras / 玛格丽特·杜拉斯
- Year
- 1976
- Region
- France
Close-reading questions
- 01When the soundtrack of India Song enters images of ruins, which memories remain sonic and which presents belong only to visible space?
- 02Where do sound and image remain absolutely separate, and through what repetitions do they approach their respective limits?
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Primary texts, scholarship, and locators
Theory coordinate: Cinema 2, Minnesota 1989, ch. 9, p. 257
- 01Cinema 2: The Time-Image
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This film in books and research
The Irrational Cut: How the Interstice Becomes a Lectosign
The provenance of sound and image must also be tracked separately
Claim: Audio-visual disjunction is not merely asynchrony but a separation of provenance, body, and historical address; the lectosign begins by asking whose voice this is and which present the image belongs to.
Conclusion: Build a provenance ledger for sound and image, then locate how the interval changes historical address; this explains the lectosign more precisely than ‘asynchrony.’
Viewing gateways and editions
- Verified complete Bilibili carrier: 【纪录片】她在威尼斯时的名字在荒凉的加尔各答bilibili.comOpen film page ↗
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Edition note: Complete single-part film, runtime 1:54:33.
Link checked: 2026-08-13