eternal return redux

a short digital film by TJADER-KNIGHT inc.

produced by Boring Films MMVIII

running time 15min30sec – b&w / colour – stereo

We can change time, we can travel!

“Existence is not a problem. The immediacy of being reveals itself in non-problematic terms to the pure intellect. Existence, as such, does not demand definition. It is the spontaneity of being. … But it is impossible to conceive everything in an indeterminate way when every moment of existence is entirely determinate. Determining existence as totality means conceiving its infinity, a determinate and positive infinity, which is precisely the totality. … This enclosure of existence in the infinite is not a process, it is a production of the infinite itself in its positive essence. Reality is always ordered toward the infinite determination, but the converse must also be true: This tendency toward the infinite must also invert itself, expressing itself as a plural determination of things produced, without which the infinite would be conceived as divisible.”

                                                Antonio Negri The Savage Anomaly – First Foundation

“ … the before and after are no longer themselves a matter of external empirical succession, but of the intrinsic quality of that which forms an empirical sequence into a series … Everything which functions as limit between two series divided into two parts, the before and the after constituting the two sides of the limit … “

Gilles Deleuze The Time-Image, Cinema II

become. diverse

"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