FILM ATLAS

Film atlas

An index of 147 films, with shot analysis, concept explanations, stills, scholarship, and viewing links. Search by title, director, concept, or viewing source, then open a film to read its analysis.

Films and analyses

015
Pour la suite du monde identification poster
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Pour la suite du monde

Pour la suite du monde · 1963

Pierre Perrault & Michel Brault / 皮埃尔·佩罗、米歇尔·布罗 · Canada

Reviving the beluga hunt is both action and storytelling. Filming reorganizes communal memory and produces collective utterances that prefigure a people to come.

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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles identification poster
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles · 1975

Chantal Akerman / 香特尔·阿克曼 · Belgium / France

body cinemaeverydayness / ceremonyfemale temporality

Cooking, cleaning, waiting, and counting appear in their full duration. Minute disorder first develops in body and ceremony.

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The Times That Are identification poster
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The Times That Are

Le règne du jour · 1967

Pierre Perrault / 皮埃尔·佩罗 · Canada

fabulationintercessorbecoming of a people

Alexis and Perrault become intercessors for one another through the journey to France. The search does not restore a fixed origin; character, filmmaker, and Québec's collective voice change together through storytelling.

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Black Swan identification poster
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Black Swan

Black Swan · 2010

Darren Aronofsky / 达伦·阿伦诺夫斯基 · United States

mutual mirrorsactual / virtualdouble

The rehearsal mirror first corrects Nina's body, then reflections hesitate, slip out of phase, and even move before she does. The mirror no longer confirms a whole self; it compresses Nina and Lily, White Swan and Black Swan, into one body. Scratches, feathers, toes, and stage transformation are therefore more than illustrations of subjective hallucination: actual and reflected bodies rewrite one another, filming 'becoming the role' as a circuit that produces the performer in return.

022
Synecdoche, New York identification poster
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Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York · 2008

Charlie Kaufman / 查理·考夫曼 · United States

seed / environmentcrystal growthworld within world

Caden copies New York inside a warehouse and assigns actors to copy friends, strangers, and himself. Each double demands more rooms, rehearsals, and doubles of doubles. The stage no longer abbreviates life; it expands like a crystalline seed into an environment that reabsorbs marriage, ageing, and death. Sammy first makes a profession of watching Caden and later assumes his role, showing that a copy is not a static image: it changes how the original can next live until neither person nor set retains an outside to which it can return.

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24 City identification poster
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24 City

二十四城记 · 2008

Jia Zhangke / 贾樟柯 · China

powers of the falsetestimonydocument / fiction

Factory 420 is being demolished, so the place named by testimony disappears from the image while it is being narrated. Workers and performers including Joan Chen, Lü Liping, and Zhao Tao share the same frontal interview form. The film neither lets professional identity settle truth nor equates performance with deceit; dialect, pause, facial detail, old photographs, popular songs, and demolition dust test one another. Here the power of the false does not abolish history. It forces history to acknowledge that urban memory can only be produced among heterogeneous tellings.

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Chronicle of a Summer identification poster
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Chronicle of a Summer

Chronique d’un été · 1961

Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin / 让·鲁什、埃德加·莫兰 · France

cinéma-véritécamera participationcollective self-critique

Participants answer, perform, and reorganize their experience, then watch the film together and criticize their screen images. Identity moves among lived position, filmed role, and collective discussion, turning the camera from an investigative tool into a participant in the event.

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The Hour of the Furnaces identification poster
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The Hour of the Furnaces

La hora de los hornos · 1968

Fernando Solanas & Octavio Getino / 费尔南多·索拉纳斯、奥克塔维奥·赫蒂诺 · Argentina

Third Cinemafilm-actpeople presupposed / missing

Montage, intertitles, pauses, and discussion organize projection as political action. Because the film presupposes a revolutionary people available to be addressed, it becomes a decisive comparison for testing the boundary of Deleuze's claim that the people are missing.

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A Ridiculous Kind of Country identification poster
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A Ridiculous Kind of Country

Un pays sans bon sens! · 1970

Pierre Perrault / 皮埃尔·佩罗 · Canada

countrycollective enunciationcontested belonging

Isolated figures question Québec belonging from different positions, turning country into a problem no single representative can close. Disagreement, relay, and transformation form collective utterances directed toward a people to come.

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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia identification poster
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da · 2011

Nuri Bilge Ceylan / 努里·比格·锡兰 · Turkey

death-imagewaitinglandscape

Headlights repeatedly illuminate similar slopes and fountains, yet the suspect can only answer 'not here.' The search accumulates no mastery of the steppe; it releases wind, an apple rolling into a stream, car conversations about illness and family, and the pause produced when the mayor's daughter serves tea. Even after the body is found, transported, and examined, the doctor suppresses a detail that could alter responsibility. Procedure finishes while the event remains unexhausted: the time of death stays among landscape, fatigue, and a judgment left unwritten.

035
Bicycle Thieves identification poster
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Bicycle Thieves

Ladri di biciclette · 1948

Vittorio De Sica / 维托里奥·德·西卡 · Italy

The search should organize Rome as a space of purposeful action, yet it carries father and son through crowds, streets, and encounters that never cohere. When the boy witnesses his father’s failed theft, seeing replaces solution: the character becomes a seer within a situation he can no longer answer.

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Paisà identification poster
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Paisà

Paisà · 1946

Roberto Rossellini / 罗伯托·罗西里尼 · Italy

event before and afterpure optical / sound situationsensory-motor rupture

Six episodes join encounters, mistranslations, and abrupt deaths while withholding transitions that would explain them. Characters enter after a fact has begun and leave before its consequences can be mastered; the inexhaustible before and after of the event presses directly on perception.

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Tokyo Story identification poster
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Tokyo Story

東京物語 · 1953

Yasujirō Ozu / 小津安二郎 · Japan

Trains and buses deliver the parents to Tokyo without re-forming the family as a community of action. Low viewpoints, abbreviated visits, empty rooms, and smokestacks break the trip into everyday intervals. After the mother’s death, objects and spaces continue, and time appears as the persistence of ordinary life.

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Stagecoach identification poster
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Stagecoach

Stagecoach · 1939

John Ford / 约翰·福特 · United States

Cinema 1 chapter 9 defines S–A–S′ on pp. 141–142. Page 146 directly uses Stagecoach's alternation between coach interior and exterior to explain Ford's Encompasser and treats the circular S–A–S as a first approximation; p. 147 then distinguishes Ford's spiral as S–A–S′, moving toward a new situation. The atlas therefore locates three passages without treating a long shot as proof by itself. Around 00:35:10, the coach is reduced beneath Monument Valley and the sky, proposing rather than proving an encompassing situation. From 01:13:30 to 01:15:20, cross-cutting distributes driver, reins, horses, gunfighters, and passengers across a collective act, giving firmer evidence for A. From 01:33:50 to 01:35:28, Ringo is released and leaves with Dallas in a small cart. That departure may form S′, but it is also a countertest: the film clearly shows Ringo leaving town with Dallas after his release without directly showing whether legal and class positions inside the town are redistributed. Deleuze's criticism on p. 150 of American montage reducing social causes to a personal duel, together with the distinctions among whole mission, local action, and duel on pp. 151–152, sets the textual boundary for asking whether a changed situation for the pair amounts to a changed situation as a whole. The atlas is responsible for the three timecodes and for relating them in this way.

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The Passion of Joan of Arc identification poster
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The Passion of Joan of Arc

La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc · 1928

Carl Theodor Dreyer / 卡尔·西奥多·德莱叶 · France

affection-imagefaceintensive series

Close-ups strip the courtroom of continuous space, confronting Joan’s eyes, tears, and lips with the judges’ wrinkles. The face ceases to serve action and becomes a surface of intensive variation; fear, faith, and cruelty are perceived directly as qualities.

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Seven Samurai identification poster
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Seven Samurai

七人の侍 · 1954

Akira Kurosawa / 黑泽明 · Japan

action-imagequestion formethical situation

Village maps, formations, and reconnaissance gather every given condition of defence, then force a higher question: ‘What is a samurai at this historical moment?’ The rain battle secures the village, but burial mounds and peasant song answer that the peasants are the true victors and the samurai have become displaced shadows.

042
Céline and Julie Go Boating identification poster
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Céline and Julie Go Boating

Céline et Julie vont en bateau · 1974

Jacques Rivette / 雅克·里维特 · France

sensory-motor ruptureactual / virtualfabulation

A Paris chase loosens ordinary action; sweets then send the women into a repeatedly staged house story. They move from spectators and doubles to participants who rewrite the plot and rescue the child; bodies, play, and repetition fabricate another route through reality.

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Close-Up identification poster
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Close-Up

Nema-ye Nazdik · 1990

Abbas Kiarostami / 阿巴斯·基亚罗斯塔米 · Iran

Sabzian enters a family as ‘Makhmalbaf,’ and trial footage plus reenactment asks the actual participants to perform themselves. No single judge settles identity as true or false; the camera follows how a lie produces relations, shame, and creative desire.

SCENES · 16 DOSSIERS

Film stills and scene analysis

64 scene analyses describe images, sounds, characters’ actions, and temporal relations. Bilibili viewing links accompany 16 of the films.

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FILM ARGUMENTS · 3

Theory unfolds inside the shot

Each essay begins with continuous scenes and connects them to primary passages, seminar records, cited scholarship, and atlas analysis.

Brief mention by Deleuze · 1948Germany Year ZeroRuins, historical sound, sensory-motor rupture, and the child seerDeleuze primary text · 1963Pour la suite du mondeOral memory, the beluga hunt, fabulation, and a people to comeAtlas analysis · 2004Tropical MaladyRupture, soundscape, queer time, and becoming in Tropical Malady
01A flashback is not direct time

Ask whether it merely supplies causal information; time becomes the issue only when distinct sheets of past coexist without reducing to one recollection.

02A mirror is not automatically a crystal

A mirror is only a formal clue; a crystal requires actual and virtual to exchange while remaining indiscernible.

03A long take does not automatically present time

Duration is not the conclusion; ask whether persistence, waiting, and intervals subordinate movement to time rather than merely slowing action.

Edition, source-label, and viewing notes

Timecodes refer to the edition named in each entry. Primary-text locators distinguish Minnesota 1989 from Bloomsbury Revelations 2013; scene analyses and bibliography records have direct links. Research library

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Deleuze primary text

Primary conceptual case

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Brief mention by Deleuze

Brief mention by Deleuze

The film appears in Cinema 2 as a brief example, list item, or supporting mention.

Scholarly research

Cited later scholarship

Established by a named monograph, article, or special issue.

Atlas analysis

Atlas analysis

Conceptual interpretations and comparisons developed from specific shots.

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