Time In Cinema And Modern Art: Reflections Inspired By Farshad Zahedi’s 'The Petrified Object And The Poetics Of Time In Cinema'

Abstract

Inspired by Farshad Zahedi’s audiovisual essay The Petrified Object and the Poetics of Time in Cinema, this article briefly presents three philosophical approaches to cinema’s ways of expressing time – as articulated by Bergson, Tarkovsky, and Deleuze – and questions how absolute time and chronological time are brought to a state of crisis by this modern form of art.

Keywords

• Chronos
• Durée
• Aging
• Time’s moral qualities
• Audiovisual essay