01:40:00People and fabulation · SHOT EVIDENCE
Delegating a spokesman at the aquarium
How does collective enunciation take form in one person’s voice while retaining plural sources?
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. 01:39:30—01:40:30
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Visible facts
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Three men converse in an outdoor area of the aquarium; one occupies the position between the other two.
Audible facts
- 01
The exchange explicitly delegates one participant to speak for the group.
Action relation
Through delegation, an individual voice acquires a plural position and represents the common undertaking within an institution.
Temporal relation
The film carries the community from remembering an old practice to producing a representative and entering new institutional relations.
Conceptual reading
Delegation is spoken by group members and changes who can speak in what capacity.
Concepts used in the judgement
- Fabulationfabulation · CANDIDATE
Explicit delegation changes the speaking relation between individual and collective and is therefore a strong fabulation candidate. It must still remain connected to the film's shared reenactment and filming intervention rather than being proven conclusively by the phrase 'speak for us' alone.
→ - Speech act and a people to comeacte de parole / peuple à venir · SCENE SUPPORT
Delegation turns an individual voice into a position of collective enunciation.
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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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