Chinese-language research
徐辉 / Xu Hui
Systematizes perception, affection, recollection, and thought in Living Images, establishing a major Chinese-language entry into Deleuze’s theory of cinema.
Major works
- 01《有生命的影像》 / Living Images
Atlas further reading: debates
Return Chinese-language research to particular translations, regional experiences, and film forms, testing how collective speech, sheets of history, and fabulation redraw the taxonomy.
How can the field de-centre Europe?
World cinemas de-centre the field by modifying the taxonomy itself.
Taxonomy or generator?
Fixed labels invite mere example-hunting; an open taxonomy requires new concepts to transform existing relations and explain across cases.
How does temporal rupture become political?
Test non-linearity through rights to see, the distribution of waiting, and ownership of the past; its effects can include nostalgia, trauma markets, control, or paralysis.
Atlas further reading: concepts and films
Related concepts
- Fabulationfabulation
Does narration change the actual relation among speaker, filmmaker, and collective?
→ - Speech act and a people to comeacte de parole / peuple à venir
Who speaks, to whom, through which path, and which conditions, responses, and consequences does the image show?
→ - Sheets of the pastnappes de passé
Identify the present problem that triggers recollection, then trace how the figure enters, changes, or fails to reach a region of the past. If a flashback merely supplies causal information and returns to one timeline, it remains a causal flashback.
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Related films
- 24 City2008 · Jia Zhangke / 贾樟柯
Factory 420 is being demolished, so the place named by testimony disappears from the image while it is being narrated. Workers and performers including Joan Chen, Lü Liping, and Zhao Tao share the same frontal interview form. The film neither lets professional identity settle truth nor equates performance with deceit; dialect, pause, facial detail, old photographs, popular songs, and demolition dust test one another. Here the power of the false does not abolish history. It forces history to acknowledge that urban memory can only be produced among heterogeneous tellings.
→ - Kaili Blues2015 · Bi Gan / 毕赣
Criterion: the Dangmai sequence lets search, past, future premonition, and spatial traversal coexist within one present.
→ - Long Day’s Journey into Night2018 · Bi Gan / 毕赣
Criterion: whether dream repairs action or opens an indiscernible actual/virtual circuit.
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