Écran sensible: temporalidade e memória no cinema de exposição de Alain Fleischer

Abstract

This work intends to discuss about the dialogues between photography and cinema, creating intersections and making possible an understanding in regard to the uses of devices that, when imbricate, become hybrid, which result in interferences both in photographic and cinematographic times. These changes generate new representations of temporality, which start to be understood as a site of paradox to the variations of time. Anachronism is recognized, in its multiple durations, heterogeneous times and tangled memories. This crossing of times – which is only possible due the surviving of images and the readings made about them – makes possible a break of the temporal progression, since it is presented as a document that operates in the differentials of each image duration, permeating borders of movement in still image and fixity in moving images. Facing the creation of different experiences of enjoyment, the spectator can activate new levels to the perception of time. To accomplish these intentions, we will analyze how the exposition cinema – term proposed by Jean-Christophe Royoux and developed by Philippe Dubois – opposes to the cinema of projection, in a movement that happens when cinema occupy other spaces, like art galleries and museums. It produces a different perception of time and temporality, through memory. Our main focus is the performance Écran Sensible, by French photographer and filmmaker Alain Fleischer. The research intends to immerse the territory of theories that are the basis for these new experiences and new levels of perception of time and memory. We dialogue here with authors like Philippe Dubois, Georges Didi-Huberman, Gilles Deleuze, Antônio Fatorelli, Mauricio Lissowsky and Katia Maciel.