Deleuze's Time Image: Ozu's Late Spring (1949)

[puertopensee]

The vase in "Late Spring" is interposed between the daughter's half smile and the beginning of her tears. There is becoming, change, passage. But the form of what changes does not itself change, does not pass on. This is time, time itself, 'a little time in its pure state": a direct time-image, which gives what changes the unchanging form in which the change is produced...

--Deleuze Cinema II--The Time-Image (p. 17)

[puertopensee]

@puertopensee I must admit. I am struggling something awful with this. "the form of what changes does not itself change, does not pass on." Is the "form" of this sentence time? What changes? The movement of the shadows, of the light? On same page he later says "Time is the full, that is, the unalterable form filled by change." How is time form? What does he mean by form? What is that elusive time-image? My brains are oozing out of my ear

[Poconnor82803]

Do you have a page reference from cinema II that corresponds with this clip?

[Poconnor82803]

I found the page number from Cinema 2 in which this clip serves as a reference: it’s on page 17.

[0wn0red]

Glad it was of use! good luck with your writing!

[et6yEhzxexzhrz]

Thanks for posting. This is helpful since I'm writing about the Time-image and Ingmar Bergman.