Film atlas

The vase still life intervenes between the daughter’s smile and tears, placing change within time’s unchanging form.

Ruins exceed the reach of reparative action. The child becomes a seer before the intolerable, and the action-chain collapses from within.

The factory passage does not leave Irene wholly unable to act: she can still approach, converse, and leave. Yet the machines' scale, the narrow passage, and the mechanical sound are no longer exhausted by the site's use as a ‘workplace’; the atlas reads this remainder as her shift from managing a situation toward enduring and seeing it anew as a seer.

The volcano’s beauty and pain exceed any executable response, turning the protagonist from agent into a seer struck by a limit situation.

The disappearance escapes the logic of a solvable mystery; islands, architecture, and bodily attitudes give duration to the void within relations.

Witnesses search different sheets of the past for Kane; a complete truth remains unactualized.

In the hall of mirrors, bodies, doubles, deception, and destruction reflect one another, dissolving stable ontological priority and forming a crystal.

Bifocal structure: Robbe-Grillet organizes incompatible peaks of the present, while Resnais places characters in coexisting sheets of the past.

Private memory and historical catastrophe remain incommensurable; sound and image place both experiences within one interval, making forgetting temporal structure.

The time machine throws the protagonist among repeatedly contracting sheets of the past; the former present remains irretrievable.

Each expert, forger, director, and narrator passes the tribunal to another. The question becomes whose power can create.

Reality, memory, fantasy, rehearsal, and the film project crystallize together; the unfinished work is both seed and environment absorbing life.

Artistic ideal, aristocratic world, and decaying body are caught in a crystal of too late; preservation simultaneously reveals decomposition from within.

The visitor’s arrival distributes consequences like a theorem, yet his departure leaves an unsolved problem. Bodies, desert, and scream force thought toward an outside.

Tableaux vivants, factory labour, and failed production remain unresolved. The film turns theorem into problem and relinks bodies, images, and sounds across intervals.

Voices separate from visible bodies, while image and sound form autonomous series that meet at the edge of an absent event.

Space becomes a topology of the brain; HAL and humans mirror one another across automatism, choice, and thought’s impotence.

The maid’s small morning tasks receive their full duration. Seeing, waiting, and fatigue give everyday life optical density of its own.

After characters and rendezvous withdraw from the ending, places, objects, wind, and city noise persist. Time appears independently of relational action.

The exchanged identity dissolves a masterful subjective centre; relations between camera and character perception unsettle the objective/subjective divide.

Hands, pockets, wallets, and relays connect a space that can never be surveyed as a whole. Tactile relations replace mastery through complete action-space.

The camera withdraws to hold the figure, then advances into a corridor that now belongs to her home. False continuity detaches space from action’s coordinates.

The father’s tears after the wedding remain within the everyday; death, separation, and grief flow through the same temporal series.

Words, colours, bodies, songs, and quotations form multiple series. Thought is forced in the intervals between them.

The recollection circuit in the sealed room organizes the past as destiny. Here flashback remains a recollection-image; direct time requires a deeper temporal structure.

Multiple recollections return to conditional points where time might have taken another course, exposing its forks.

The absent woman’s voice hangs over three marriages at once. Its displaced source and three possible consequences make time fork around one threat.

Sets, colour, and ensemble movement carry the whole world into motion, forming an implied dream through the musical.

Street, rain, props, and studio become a world capable of moving through the musical itself.

Glass, reflections, machine noise, and distant actions disperse the comic centre. Sonic gags gain effects independent of visible action.

The circus present rolls a series of virtual pasts inside itself. Flashback becomes a route through the crystal; actual/virtual exchange is the criterion.

Theatre and life, masters and servants, roles and reality nest within one another while retaining a fissure through which escape remains possible: the cracked crystal.

Deleuze explicitly calls it a turning crystal: mother and wife, childhood and present, memory and perception exchange actual and virtual positions.

Memory acquires an actual body on Solaris, forming a circuit with the virtual past. Evidence: a brief adjacent example in Cinema 2.

Differences among repeated scenes exceed a single true version. Each present holds in its own right, forming inexplicable peaks of the present.

Each telling transforms narrator, characters, and world. Falsification becomes a power of becoming.

The meal repeatedly restarts through dream, performance, or interruption. Present versions replace one another with no final hierarchy. Deleuze mentions the film only briefly in Cinema 2, so this atlas keeps the claim correspondingly narrow.

The Algerian War past remains fragmentary as short montage, rooms, and speech continually transform it across different sheets.

Participants narrate and perform their journey after the fact, making filmmakers and characters become other through the story.

Borrowed names, post-recorded voices, and lived experience rewrite one another. Fiction opens minor speech and collective enunciation.

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

Choice exceeds calculable consequences and becomes a mode of existence. Bodily attitudes and disconnected planar relations let belief replace knowledge.

Laughter, fatigue, drunkenness, and suddenly frozen faces unsettle stable psychology. The linkage of bodily attitudes directly reveals time wearing relations down.

Hesitation, excess, and waiting exceed family norms and retain their own bodily time. Deleuze mentions the film only briefly in Cinema 2, so the specific reading of gesture remains the responsibility of this atlas.

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

Hotel, maze, corridor, and repetition form a world-brain circuit in which inside and outside, perception and hallucination, remain indiscernible; the spatial series itself becomes the machine of terror.

Popular myth, trance, violence, and shifting allegiance reveal a missing people and the task of creating them.

Present land and invisible class struggle form strata while sound and visual image retain their boundaries.

Mythic text, postwar resistance, and filmed land form distinct strata. Speech acts awaken the image’s historical pressure across irrational cuts.

Archive, puppet, performance, recording, and myth remain stratified. The information machine itself becomes the spiritual automaton under critique.

Katherine is struck by unfolding landscapes and visual clichés, discovering something beyond what she can personally bear. She no longer resolves what she sees through action but becomes a seer.

The Zone refuses to become a transparent environment, returning the milieu to indeterminate opacity and the seed to the morbidity of something aborting. Rain and wet matter stage a hesitant search between material and spiritual.

The ball is not the aristocratic world's last ornament but a crystal already decomposing within history. The Prince hears the ‘too late’ spreading across Sicily, so preservation and decay occupy the same image.

The dead, cataleptic woman becomes thought itself. Only when Johannes ceases to believe himself another world does he understand how belief restores life and love to this world.

Anna's narration, letters, and the son's account form free indirect discourse. Live performance lets music acquire a resistant force independent of score and biographical explanation.

Sheets of past remain recallable, but a present transformed by city and automobile makes recollection-images useless for action. Family history can no longer re-enter the present.

Two atemporal voices and the visible image each form autonomous series. The irrational cut preserves their boundaries so sound and image meet only at their limits.

The house ceases to contain action. Desire unfolds through speech while perception extends among empty rooms, bodies, and objects; what Deleuze calls a class of violence circulates between sound-image and visual image.

Sound acquires the reader's body while the visual is emptied into an unoccupied cab, roads, and a phantom lorry. As the lorry moves toward the sea, terrestrial movement enters Duras's oceanic perception.

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.

Abandoned rooms become a phantom ship moving toward the beach. Visual space and sonic memory unfold time separately, while limitless reading enters an oceanic perception deeper than particular things.

House and park are reduced to an almost motionless visual stratum, while relations are produced mainly by speech, pauses, and unseen events. The film establishes the structural point from which Duras later separates sound and vision more radically.

Palestinian images and French domestic images are not unified by analogy. The between first breaks the received chain, then lets difference itself organize a new political relation.

The opening low angle starts Josef K.'s search for an accusation. Women, books, childhood, art, and religion become adjacent sheets of past. The trial has no terminus; a changing series of falsifiers keeps it in motion.

Mr Clay stages a legend as reality, making the film both the legend's mirror and the seed from which it germinates again. Once enacted, the story escapes its arranger and returns to the sea and to another telling.

Death supplies a fixed point around which jealousy, testimony, deceit, and memory coexist non-chronologically; Iago turns truth-seeking and judgement into a changing series of falsifiers. Montage organizes both sheets of past and relations of force.

The professor is surrounded by artworks, yet his knowledge of art separates him from life and creation. The family entering his apartment decomposes the artificial crystal from within, and his sensuous revelation through the young man arrives too late.

Palaces, opera, and aristocratic bodies compose an artificial crystal cut off from nature and history. Corruption spreads through desire, bodies, and architecture while war and Prussian power approach off-screen; too late becomes the film's temporal rhythm.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Window frame, telephoto lens, and point-of-view editing turn the neighbours’ actions into relations to be inferred, while the immobilized Jeff cannot enter the scene. Observer, observed object, and the conjecture joining them all become image-content; relation itself becomes a third term.

Cinema 1, pp. 204–205 both supplies a general criterion for Hitchcock's inclusion of spectator response within a director–film–spectator relation and directly explains Vertigo through variations in the Same's relations to the dead woman, husband, and detective; it does not analyze the atlas's three chosen passages shot by shot. Rushton, pp. 53–57, gives a more specific chain: Elster's commission scripts Scottie's viewing through the absent Carlotta; Judy's unsent letter confirms the deception for the spectator before Scottie; the remaking of Judy then unfolds inside that knowledge gap. Three atlas scene records bind commission, confession, and green-lit remaking to the 02:07:27 repost timeline. A boundary is equally important: Rushton p. 124 explicitly classifies the dolly zoom as the affection-image par excellence, so it cannot serve by itself as positive relation-image evidence. The green light's actual–virtual reading likewise remains a candidate pending evidence of a reciprocal circuit.

Cinema 1, p. 204 directly calls the first gull attacking the heroine a demark and the thousands of birds or flock as a whole a symbol, but it does not analyze the pet-shop or playground editing for the atlas. The three scene records therefore separate evidentiary levels: the pet shop at 00:02:00–00:07:10 only proposes an ordinary relation of merchandise, gift, and captivity; the bay crossing at 00:25:00–00:25:42 receives direct primary support for a gull that reroutes that relation; the playground at 01:09:45–01:12:15 tests how the flock changes school/play, song/alarm, perching/encirclement, and classroom order/urgent evacuation together. The children's song continues through the flock's accumulation, timing each cutback and delaying alarm.

Cinema 1, p. 201 directly invokes an exchange of crimes and murders to explain how Hitchcock surrounds and penetrates action with a fabric of relations; it does not classify the lighter, touching shoes, or spectacles shot by shot. Rushton, pp. 48–53, supplies the more specific chain: accidental foot contact on the train initiates a relation between strangers; Bruno construes Guy's words as an exchange of crimes. The lighter begins as Anne's gift to Guy. When Guy lends it to Bruno for a cigarette, Bruno reads its 'A to G' inscription—Anne to Guy—and draws the Anne–Guy gift relation into the Guy–Bruno criminal relation, making the lighter a mark of that relation; he later tries to turn it into a demark that would place Guy at the murder site. Barbara's spectacles abruptly reconnect a dinner-party strangling game to Miriam's murder. On p. 53 Rushton follows Robin Wood's account of the “spectator trap” to show that implication is not merely informational: the film first encourages the audience to treat Miriam's death as the removal of Guy's obstacle, then turns that desire back on the audience through the dinner-party strangling game. That the audience witnesses Bruno's act before Guy does is the atlas's carrier-based record of a knowledge gap; it is not folded into the same claim about Thirdness. Deamer, pp. 132–137, is used only to calibrate the general taxonomy of mark, demark, symbol, and spectator relation. The atlas remains responsible for its three Bilibili timecodes and shot-level applications; these are not presented as Deleuze's own shot analysis.

The Odessa Steps organize direction, scale, collective bodies, and the soldiers’ machine into conflicting series; three stone-lion shots turn quantitative difference into a qualitative leap. Montage generates an organic whole through opposition, rupture, and rising pathos.

Eye, lens, city, machine, and editing table connect through superimposition and accelerated intervals without submission to a stable human viewpoint. The camera enters movement between things, releasing perception from a centred subject toward matter’s dispersed state.

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.

The camera rides the lift, crosses the lobby, and sways with drunkenness, composing the doorman’s dignity together with hotel space. Once his uniform is taken, the building changes from stage of prestige to apparatus of oppression; camera movement performs the perceptual change.

Three passages are now located, while their theoretical relation remains a candidate reading constrained by counterevidence. From 02:51:30 to 02:57:31, the giant gold tooth sign is first proposed for sale as an exchange object; the old meat and demand for change that immediately follow still belong to ordinary exchange and a practical budget. The passage therefore first contests the claim that a golden object is automatically a fetish. From 03:02:06 to 03:02:42, Trina counts her savings, brings the money close to her face, and addresses it as second-person 'you': grasping and hoarding as real behaviours or gestures may be symptom candidates. Only when money is withdrawn from exchange and use into something solely kept and caressed does it approach a fetish candidate. From 03:50:45 to 03:55:39, the money bag, money, dead horse, broken canteen, handcuffs, and caged bird enter one exhausted desert milieu, but money, teeth, and the caged bird cannot be collapsed in advance into one class of object-fragments or fetishes: the canteen, handcuffs, and bird first belong to material relations of water loss, restraint, and exhausted life respectively. Page 125 generally defines the four structural terms and symptom or fetish while directly listing Greed's desert ending as a localized originary world. Page 128 directly names the film's impulse for gold, then defines partial object and fetish in general; pp. 126–130 also develop descent, entropy, and environmental exhaustion. Exact timecodes, the tooth's exchange function, the caress of money, and distinctions among the final objects remain the atlas's responsibility.

War, railway, flood, and broken bridge first compose an immense situation that dwarfs the little man. Continuous trajectories and the ‘miniaturization’ of machines then let a small body transform the whole through the locomotive. The General places burlesque directly inside the large form S–A–S′.

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.

Windshield, rear-view mirror, neon, and aimless cruising fragment New York into loose clichés. Travis sees everything yet cannot form an adequate response. He forces an action-chain through violence, which the media repackages as heroism, exposing crisis and cliché-production together.

The close-up progressively withdraws the face’s functions of individuation, social role, and communication. Composite half-faces, the twice-told story of motherhood, and burning film detach affect from private psychology and expose the face’s terror before emptiness.

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.

The sick writer’s coughs, thunder, gunshots, and fictional characters translate into one another through montage; body, history, and weather become sheets of one brain-world. The morning gathering does not debunk the night’s fiction but composes a transverse sheet across it.

The wide frame holds campaigning, performance, traffic, and private life at once, while multiple soundtracks let one city pass through dispersed lives. Assassination restores no centre; the stage absorbs disorder with another familiar song. Once collective action breaks down, the city is doubled by the sounds and media clichés it produces.

Rapids, mud, and forest might support heroic action, but Aguirre subordinates the expedition to a sublime plan to betray God, king, and everyone else. The farther the raft travels, the more the plan becomes empty speech; corpses, mist, and monkeys reduce a history of conquest to one isolated body's terminal performance.

Cinema 1 chapter 10 gives the general structure of small form A–S–A′ and its lacking or equivocal indices on pp. 160–163. Page 169 directly names City Lights as an example of a 'personality split of a pivotal character,' without assigning the millionaire's drunk or sober passages or a rule of recognition shot by shot. The atlas tests the drunken welcome from 00:11:30 to 00:15:50 and sober rejection from 00:34:14 to 00:35:48 as the concrete filmic realization of that phrase. The sequence directly named on p. 171 is the thread-unravelling gag around 00:52:32–00:53:54, not the final recognition. In the first meeting from 00:07:20 to 00:09:38, the film juxtaposes a dropped flower, its recovery, a coin, an approaching figure, and a departing car for the viewer; the flower seller can draw on touch, transaction, and sound, while exact attribution of each door sound still requires track-level review. In the touch recognition from 01:24:56 to 01:26:12, the action chain contracts into an affective instant of face, hand, shyness, and smile, without automatically establishing a new practical A′ or turning the film into a time-image. The theoretical relations assigned to all three located groups remain the atlas's responsibility.

Mounted on horseback or hurled like a weapon, the camera is first freed from fixed support. Superimpositions and the triptych screen then juxtapose, collide, and expand local movements. Present battle and immense history are not unified by one viewpoint; they produce a mathematical sublime between interval and whole.

The three passages require distinct evidentiary levels. At 00:00:50 the diagonal grid, title, and directional arrows propose that relational positions precede personal identity, but geometrical resemblance alone does not establish Thirdness. The farmland passage around 01:12:00 first composes a habitual series of waiting, road, vehicles, and fields; a stranger observes that the plane is dusting where there are no crops, and this relational contradiction makes it the demark that reroutes the series. At 02:15:59 the match cut joins cliff rescue to an embrace in the train berth, countertesting an overextended relation-image through sensory-motor closure and marital resolution. Deleuze, p. 203, and Rushton, pp. 48–53, supply the sign criteria; the edition bounds and comparison among opening, field, and ending are the atlas's responsibility.

Police and underworld tighten the city through raids, maps, and divided labour, yet the real duel is not between them. The underworld tribunal presents crime as manageable habit, while M pleads an uncontrollable impulse. The clash between organized action and affective compulsion marks Lang's passage from expressionist shadow to austere realism.

The dark marsh and luminous city are not two settings but two forces of a marriage moving through seduction, murder, and reconciliation. After the false report of drowning, searchlights cut across the lake and shadow changes by degrees into light. Milieu, faces, and movement together carry a passage from falling toward renewed illumination.

The camera travels against the street crowd, enters a skyscraper, and finds one desk among countless windows, embedding the individual in an exchangeable mass. John repeatedly answers the city with effort only to return to the same situation. The large form S–A–S′ fails, turning upward mobility into an S–A–S loop.

When the projectionist enters the screen, his body remains still while garden, street, precipice, snowfield, and shore strike through cuts. The train passage reverses the relation, carrying him continuously across roof, water tower, and track in one shot. Disjunctive editing and bodily trajectory make the cinema-machine a comic agent.

The cyclone turns the town into a continuously transforming milieu: façades fall, buildings slide, and wind transports bodies. Keaton's small body does not overpower disaster but passes through it by exact position and improvised trajectory. Burlesque small form thereby carries a sublime scale usually reserved for epic large form.

Cabin, hunger, and dreams of wealth keep reversing through slight differences: a shoe becomes dinner, and the Tramp becomes a chicken in Big Jim's eyes. No character masters the total situation; each improvises at a critical instant. Comedy makes action from a minute perceptual shift while letting survival slide toward devouring.

Balthazar makes no ethical choice, yet bears the effects of every human choice and non-choice. Reins, blows, loads, and wounds write human relations onto the animal body. Dying among sheep, he gives no verdict; the event suffered by the innocent separates from motive and becomes a spiritual affect.

Alpha 60's voice, an ever-contracting dictionary, and ubiquitous interrogation turn power from a single tyrant into an information network. Lemmy enters with the body of an old detective film and with poetry, making action, language, and feeling into noise the machine cannot process. The controlled city develops a rhythmic fault from within.

The drawing room has no visible barrier, yet the guests cannot cross its threshold; civility regresses into occupation, hunger, and attack. The arrival and interior attitudes recur with imperfect differences, and bad repetition closes the space. Only by restaging the decisive arrangement does the boundary loosen, before forming again in the church.

The foggy forest and spirit offer not an instruction for action but a question whose conditions must be understood. Washizu treats prophecy as an executable plan; the more urgently he acts, the more the castle becomes a spider's web. The final arrows are not an enemy's answer but the misunderstood question tightening from within.

The robbery loses its planned sequence almost immediately, leaving Sonny to shuttle among doorway, telephone, and crowd. Action remains intense but sweeps the same ground like a windscreen wiper. Media, police, and onlookers keep rewriting the event, undoing qualified action-space into an any-space-whatever without an exit.

The duel restores order, but Tom performs it while Ransom receives its credit. By yielding the deed, the cowboy lets the West's unwritten force pass into the senator's written law. The flashback does not restore fact to public status: action forms an ethical spiral, and the new situation rests on a preserved legend.

Writing, table manners, and logical puzzles try to insert Kaspar into social action, while his landscape visions open another passage in the image. Fields, mountains, and desert are not psychological illustrations; they split the small figure's local situation in two. Society can train his acts but cannot absorb his seeing.

Doors, tabletops, hands, diary pages, and exhausted steps construct the priest's path fragment by fragment; space is never given whole. The face no longer governs emotion, as tactile fragments bear judgment, illness, and faith. Each halt is both interrupted action and another station toward the Cross, producing spiritual affect through broken connections.

Misty lake, back rooms, fields, and garden extend space through adjacent fragments rather than a total viewpoint. Overflow from the bath leads to fields and then to a meal months later. One line of the universe passes through the seductive ghost and returns to the dead wife's presence, joining living, dead, and social oppression.

Partisans, a civilian household, a priest, and the occupiers might have converged into one line of resistance, yet raids, a street chase, abrupt gunfire, torture, and execution cut it into displaced encounters. Pina runs after the truck and suddenly falls while the children can only look on. Action no longer encompasses the event; postwar reality first appears as dispersion and gaps.

The same face and moustache need only a change of uniform, posture, and vocal regime to occupy the incommensurable situations of victim and executioner. At 00:54:08–00:56:16, the globe ballet contracts world conquest into balloon, dance, and rupture; the atlas treats it as a candidate attraction under chapter 11, pp. 182–183. At 01:50:07–01:54:27, misrecognition exchanges prisoner and ruler, making it a candidate inversion under pp. 183–187. Both are shot-level atlas inferences. The final address at 01:59:09–02:03:08 has direct support in chapter 10, pp. 171–173: an ordinary voice replaces Hynkel's pseudo-German terror and makes the political problem implicit in the doubled role into Deleuze's discursive figure. This establishes discourse as image-object, not the completed transformation of democratic institutions within the film.

The jail scarcely needs the prisoner's body to acquire meaning; it operates as a functional node to be held or breached. Sheriff, recovering alcoholic, disabled old man, and young gunfighter represent no organic community. They form a provisional group through capacities to guard, hear, carry, and shoot, while the final combination of dynamite and rifle compresses Western space into exchangeable functions.

Deleuze names Red River in Cinema 1, chapter 10, p. 165, within Hawks and the small form rather than directly presenting it as a model of the large form. Open landscape and collective task can still pose an S–A–S′ hypothesis. The atlas then countertests it through the claim passage at 00:15:38, stampede at 00:51:20, and transfer of command at 01:21:08: does an encompassing situation genuinely precede action, or is it progressively disclosed and reorganized by local acts, differences of speed, and relayed functions? The relation among these three shots is the atlas's responsibility, not a shot-by-shot gloss of p. 165.

Tony builds an apparently effective gangster habit through assassination, machine-gun fire, and territorial seizure, while recurring X marks inscribe death within each success. The milieu is no stable community but an alliance ready to reverse. When his sister is shot, possessiveness, arrogance, and fear converge into a crack, and the actions that organized situations abruptly fail.

Sky first encompasses land, river, and expedition; the Missouri then stretches the static Western milieu into a long fluid route. Companions of different backgrounds do not fuse into a national community but connect through paddling, negotiation, guarding, and improvisation. The escape by a low branch in the rapids turns the gap between immense nature and small-group action into a locally usable function.

White wall, door, veil, pillow, and sheets detach young Sophia's face from courtly coordinates. White is not innocence but an affective space that reflects, refracts, and imprisons light. Later, a close-up divided by shadow makes choice visible: she renounces intimacy for the cold conquest of power. Alternating light and dark no longer explains psychology; it directly composes a mode of existence.

The vertical of Babylon's wall divides the elevated king and lower chariots within one geometric frame; parallel montage then makes four epochs recall one another. In the finale, the Babylonian chariot and modern car-train rescues accelerate together. Distant civilizations converge as editorial intervals contract, indirectly producing time through the expansion and contraction of a whole of movement.

Temple, colossus, fire, and crowds remain layered in the frontal staging of early cinema, yet the camera travels slowly across and into those planes. Pastrone makes camera movement an ordinary way of organizing space rather than a conspicuous trick. The shot records not only displacement of figures but remeasures the relations among set, crowd, and action as it moves.

Pale grey light, drifting shadows, a scythe detached from its owner, and the road seen upward from inside a coffin strip inn, mill, and manor of stable coordinates. Allan Grey is not an agent who masters horror but Deleuze's grey figure of uncertainty. He moves between real connection and virtual supernatural possibility, while space itself bears the choice not yet decided.