On the time-image

On the time-image

Here are some quotes from Gilles Deleuze's Cinema 2: The Time-Image. I hope they clarify the concept or at least create some interesting art ideas. If you want to discuss it more, give me a call.

"the direct time-image always gives us access to that...dimension where people and things occupy a place in time which is incommensurable with the one they have in space." (pg. 39)


"The relation, sensation-motory situation [action-reaction, stimulus-response] -> indirect image of time is replaced by a non-localizable relation, pure optical and sound [and possibly other sense] situation -> direct time-image." (pg. 41)


"The [time-image] is virtual, in opposition to the actuality of the movement-image [action-reaction, stimulus-response]. But, if virtual is opposed to actual, it is not opposed to real, far from it. " (pg. 41)

Virtual vs. Actual example: A mirror image of yourself is virtual, whereas your body is actual. Both of these things are real, yet the former is intangible and the later is tangible.

-Lendl

Edit:
Something from the internet encyclopedia of philosophy. We can expand the concept beyond cinema to other mediums:
"Since the cinema of the time-image is concerned to liberate images from carrying or implying time in order to form narrative (no less than liberating time itself from narrative), images are themselves free now to express forces, "shocks of force," (pg. 139). Scenes, movements and language become expressive rather than representative." - Jon Roffe