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The Film to Come

This article in Firoza Elavia (ed.), Cinematic Folds: the furling and unfurling of images (Toronto: Pleasure Dome Press, 2008, pp.267-77) examines how traditionally the cinematic has been understood as the visual movement occurring from the rapid succession of one film frame to another. The notion of the cinematic in this article challenges this proposal and begins instead with an understanding that it is to be conceived as a mode of perception and experience of the world. Cinematic movement, it is argued, is what occurs in our perception of things, and in the flow between the tangibility of the world, images (material/immaterial) and the mind. These infinite oscillations between world, image and mind; between what is mental and material and, what lies inside and outside film constitute the force fields of Cinematic Folds: understood as the furling and unfurling of images. This notion references the zones between media experimentation, writing, reading and thinking as they come to resonate and flow with each other, enduring over the pages of the text. Contributing to the second section, ‘Invisible Spectrum of the Perceptible’, this chapter is therefore preoccupied with the impalpable life of images and it examines movements occurring in the interval between two images or movements, or that which occurs between world and mind. The writer analyses the stops, gaps and transitions ensuing between things, drawing attention to immanent movement and to virtual time.

Cinematic Folds was reviewed by filmmaker Angela Joosse for Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. No. 23 (http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/topia/article/viewFile/31849/32881)