00:20:00People and fabulation · SHOT EVIDENCE
Announcing the project to the island
How does the film capture a collective at the moment it is convened?
Film and viewing version
Pour la suite du monde · Pour la suite du monde · Pierre Perrault & Michel Brault / 皮埃尔·佩罗、米歇尔·布罗 · 1963
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Passage and still timecodes
approx. 00:19:30—00:20:30
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Visible facts
- 01
A man explains the project to two others outside a wooden building.
Audible facts
- 01
The exchange frames the task as informing residents and drawing them into a collective intention.
Action relation
Speech recruits participants before a complete agent of action exists.
Temporal relation
A long-interrupted communal practice is recast as a public commitment toward the future.
Conceptual reading
The sequel shows recruits, delegated roles, financing, and collective construction.
Concepts used in the judgement
- Fabulationfabulation · CANDIDATE
The public announcement is a fabulation candidate because it tries to turn listeners into participants. Only later recruitment, division of labour, and altered positions within the filming process can show that it is more than one-way mobilization.
→ - Speech act and a people to comeacte de parole / peuple à venir · SCENE SUPPORT
Announcement and persuasion establish a collective position.
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Primary and scholarly coordinates
- 01Cinema 2: The Time-Image
Minnesota 1989 translation: ch. 6, pp. 150–153; ch. 8, pp. 221–224
Perrault: the white whale and fabulation in chapter 6; storytelling speech-act, fishing action, memory, and a people to come in chapter 8.
Terminological coordinates
- fabulationfabulation
Story reorganizes reality and collectivity within the filming process.
→ - speech actacte de parole
Speaker, addressee, path of circulation, and consequences enter the image together.
→ - a people to come / the people are missingpeuple à venir / le peuple manque
Response, delegation, and shared practice produce collective utterances and prefigure a people not yet formed.
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Chapter relations
Viewing and still sources
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