Unleashing the Future: Deleuze's Crystals of Time and Theo Angelopoulos' 'The Travelling Players'
| Main author: | Retsikas, Kostas |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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SOAS, University of London |
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SOAS Research Online |
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English |
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This article discusses The Travelling Players (1975), Theo Angelopoulos's provocative film, by upholding the priority the director's audio-visual images assign to the future as what Deleuze calls ‘the pure and empty form of time’. It also argues that The Travelling Players supplements the Deleuzian quartet of crystal-images with a new type of crystal-image: Angelopoulos crafts images of extraordinary consistency that act as filters, splitting and sieving time at once, a kind of audio-visual refinery laid out on the silver screen, with the distillation process dedicated to blocking repression, its past and present iterations, from contaminating the yet-to-come, banishing the negative from returning in the future. |
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Journal Article |
| author |
Retsikas, Kostas |
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Retsikas, Kostas |
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Retsikas, Kostas |
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Retsikas, Kostas |
| title |
Unleashing the Future: Deleuze's Crystals of Time and Theo Angelopoulos' 'The Travelling Players' |
| publisher |
Edinburgh University Press |
| publishDate |
2024 |
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https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/40969/
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