Hyper-materialistic cinema: Bergson, Deleuze and the virtualization of matter in Louis Lumière’s films

Authors

  • Marcelo Carvalho PhD in Communication and Culture from the School of Commucation at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2016.111606

Keywords:

Louis Lumière, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson, Matter, Perceptual-Image

Abstract

This paper aims to promote a materialistic review of some of the first Louis Lumière’s works, considering the transitional character of these films between matter and cinema. It focuses on two authors who do not usually ground the studies on the earliest years of cinema. Henri Bergson, mainly, but not only, for the materialistic propositions addressed in the first chapter of Matter and memory, and Gilles Deleuze, from whom we take a few concepts covered in The movement-image and The time-image. The perceptual-image status would rely on such materialistic inclination of Lumière’s images, in which we identify an extension of material universe as matter virtualization.

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Author Biography

  • Marcelo Carvalho, PhD in Communication and Culture from the School of Commucation at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
    PhD and Master in Communication and Culture from the School of Commucation at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Specialist in Arts and Philosophy from the Pontifical Catholical University of Rio de Janeiro (Puc-Rio) and in Communication in the Third Sector from Candido Mendes University. He graduated in Communication (Cinema and Journalism) from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF).

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BONNE d’enfants et soldat. Louis Lumière, França, 1897.

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Published

2016-08-22

Issue

Vol. 43 No. 45 (2016): Dossiê: A pesquisa em cultura audiovisual: novos desafios e aportes teóricos

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Hyper-materialistic cinema: Bergson, Deleuze and the virtualization of matter in Louis Lumière’s films. (2016). Significação: Journal of Audiovisual Culture, 43(45), 115-133. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2016.111606