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(2012) Phenomenology and the future of film, Dordrecht, Springer.
Agnès Varda's trinket box
subjective relationality, affect and temporalised space
Jenny Chamarette
pp. 107-142
We long for objects, because they are never ours for long. Peter Schwenger's comment above serves as a reminder of the persistently affective relationship between a subject and an object. When that object in question relates to the film object, what takes place is a subjective spatio-temporal encounter that is as simulacral as it is material. In this chapter, the melancholy and the productivity of nostalgia, that particularly timely affect, become the key means of thinking with productive communicative and relational strategies of cinematic subjectivity. Nostalgia, as an immaterial, powerful, circulating form of affect, becomes coextensive with virtual and actual cinematic worlds. As a consequence, ethics do not dominate the thinking of cinematic subjectivity here, but instead ethical relationality surfaces as a mode of apprehending the spatio-temporal engagements of Agnès Varda's films and installations.
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Chamarette, J. (2012). Agnès Varda's trinket box: subjective relationality, affect and temporalised space, in Phenomenology and the future of film, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 107-142.
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