eternal return – gentle exposure to the gestures of pleasure

Brief synopsis:

We can change time, we can travel!

eternal return takes us on a neverending journey of the blue moment.
…

We return but never exactly to where we started at

La surprise, c’est le saut dans l’espace-temps de rien qui vienne d’ “avant” ni d’ “ailleurs”:
c’est donc le saut dans l’espace-temps de l’espace-temps “lui-même”. C’est l’avoir-lieu du
lieu; du là qui n’est pas un lieu “pour” l’être, mais l’être en tant que lieu, l’être-le-là; non pas
l’être présent, mais le présent de l’être en tant qu’il arrive et que donc il n’est pas.
Jean-Luc Nancy Être singulier pluriel

Le plus grand risque est couru au moment même où il faut bien essayer de savoir. Quoi ?
Non pas quoi mais qui. Non pas de quoi l’on parle mais d’abord à qui l’on dit “et moi, et toi”.
Ne jamais faire confiance à la langue pour cela. Ni à la grammaire des diffêrences sexuelles.

- Le toucher, disais-tu ? Mais toucher qui ?
- C’est pourquoi je rêvais d’un baiser sur les yeux …
Jacques Derrida Le toucher, Jean-Luc Nancy

“What is actual is always present. But then, precisely, the present changes or passes. We can
always say that it becomes past when it no longer is, when a new present replaces it.
But this is meaningless. It is clearly necessary for it to pass on for the new present to arrive
and it is clearly necessary for it to pass at the same time as it is present, at the moment that it
is the present. If it was not already past at the same time as present, the present would never
pass on. The past does not follow the present that it is no longer, it coexists with the present it
was. The present is the actual image and its contemporaneous past is the virtual image.

… Bergson calls the virtual image ‘pure recollection’, to better distinguish it from mental
images … the virtual image in the pure state is defined, not in accordance with a new present
in relation to which it would be (relatively) past, but in accordance with the actual present of
which it is the past, absolutely and simultaneously … It is the virtual image which corresponds
to a particular actual image, instead of being actualised, of having to be actualised in a
different actual image.

… It is a crystal-image and not an organic image.”
Gilles Deleuze Cinema II The Time-Image

“The remote past has also its temporal order and its position in time in relation to my present,
but has these in so far as it has been present itself, that it has been ‘in its time’ traversed by
my life and carried forward to this moment. When I call up a remote past, I reopen time and
carry myself back to a moment in which it still had before it a future horizon now closed and a
horizon of the immediate past which is today remote.

… But the unbroken chain of fields of presence, by which I am guaranteed access to the past
itself, has the essential characteristic of being formed only gradually and one step at the time;
each present, in virtue of its very essence as a present, rules out the juxtaposition of other
presents and, even in the context of a time long past, I can take in a certain period of my past
life only by unfolding it anew according to its own tempo.”
Maurice Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology of Perception

eternal return plays with chronosign – images where time ceases to be subordinate to movement

Production date: 2007
Running time: 40min20sec
Format: DVD digital film / spatial installation
Produced by: Boring Films
Supported by: AVEK / Milla Moilanen

Premiere, installation:

2008 Digital Media Valencia, La Nau – University of Valencia, Spain.

Premiere, screening:

2007 KinoLev International Festival of Independent Cinematography, Lviv, Ukraine.