I've been interested in the subject of memory and images for some time now. I tried to read Matter and Memory and had an easier go at it than I did with Cinema 1 and Cinema 2. Still it wasn't easy to wrap my head around. Next semester we will be reading Deleuze's cinema dyad and I'm excited to revisit them with greater understanding and the guidance of my professor. As I continue my ghost work, I want to explore the ghostly aspect of memory and images: reflected, projected, remembered and so on. I'll be getting at some of that in my M.A. thesis, but there is need to go deeper.
There is no question, cinema is ghostly; Plato's allegory of the cave is an uncanny prefiguration of such. An up and coming film thoerist, Gilberto Perez, titled his book on film The Material Ghost, check it out here. There have been a few books published recently that hint at the same, The Virtual Life of Film, and Framed Time. This all may seem obvious, but what are the implications? For now, check out this blog, which is a cool coupling of Deleuze's theories and some good photography. For those of you that have Cien años de soldad, think of José Arcadio Buendía's death in virtual space. He dies in an image, which is then intrinsically tied to memory. I wonder if remembering isn't some sort of projection, as the title of a book on Deleuze suggests, The Brain is the Screen.
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so what if we are all just projected memory? we are limited by time and space and funnel down the cone of memory, but somewhere it all began, and we are just the echo (de tu silencio if you will) and then add our own echo to the void of some communal memory we are simply privileged to be a part of? I feel like nothing is unique or begins with me right now...
I wouldn't know how to begin to answer your question. What I can say is that when I'm feeling like I need inspiration, sometimes I listen to the Dune soundtrack, especially the tracks having to do with Paul becoming the Quisatz Haderach, and then I have waking dreams..."Father...father...the sleeper has awakened". Try it out, your thesis will come to you in a flash, and then you will have cool references to cult films in your M.A. thesis.
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