00:35:00People and fabulation · SHOT EVIDENCE
How to outwit the whale
How is a capacity transmitted through utterance, gesture, and shared practice?
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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approx. 00:34:30—00:35:30
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Visible facts
- 01
An older man speaks indoors and gestures toward his chest while others listen.
Audible facts
- 01
He explains that the hunters must be more cunning than the whale.
Action relation
The utterance acts simultaneously as instruction, self-fashioning, and transmission of hunter identity.
Temporal relation
The elder turns past competence into a role present participants can inherit.
Conceptual reading
Later collective construction and hunting give the utterance practical force.
Concepts used in the judgement
- Fabulationfabulation · CANDIDATE
The elder's instruction hands an old capacity to present listeners and therefore forms a fabulation candidate. It exceeds one-way transmission of tradition only when later bodily practice and filming act back upon the hunter identity.
→ - Speech act and a people to comeacte de parole / peuple à venir · SCENE SUPPORT
Speech calls participants into the role of capable hunters.
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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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