00:10:00People and fabulation · SHOT EVIDENCE
Preparing to revive the beluga hunt
At what utterance does a long-interrupted practice become collective action again?
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. 00:09:30—00:10:30
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Visible facts
- 01
Three island men confer above the river; one handles a wooden post or tool. The hunt concerns the beluga, locally called marsouin blanc.
Audible facts
- 01
French location dialogue discusses preparations still to be made; the official player supplies English subtitles.
Action relation
The hunt has long been discontinued, while elders retain its techniques in memory and speech; collective deliberation reorganizes them into an executable plan.
Temporal relation
The past enters the present as practical knowledge awaiting revival, and the group retakes that time through narration.
Conceptual reading
Subsequent images show deliberation becoming roles, equipment, and shared labour.
Concepts used in the judgement
- Fabulationfabulation · CANDIDATE
Candidate beginning of fabulation: deliberation speaks an interrupted practice into a present plan. Without subsequent reenactment, shared labour, and a changed filming relation, this scene establishes only preparatory conversation.
→ - Speech act and a people to comeacte de parole / peuple à venir · SCENE SUPPORT
Deliberation convenes a shared project and begins reorganizing participant positions.
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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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