The Deleuze Seminars is a collection of audio recordings, transcriptions, and English translations of, and supplemental materials from, the lectures French philosopher Gilles Deleuze gave during his career at the University of Paris 8.

“The Movement-Image: Bergsonian Lessons on Cinema” was a 21-lecture seminar given from November 1981 to June 1982. This seminar marks the first of four consecutive seminars in which Deleuze presents his theory of film. Here, in large part through the philosophy of Henri Bergson, Deleuze rethinks film as a movement-image, as opposed to a succession of still frames or photographic images. Throughout the course he references a wide variety of filmmakers, critics, and philosophers. As a precursor to the publication of Deleuze’s first of two volumes on cinema, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Cinéma 1. L'Image-Mouvement, 1983), this seminar is a valuable resource to researchers interested in Deleuze’s film theory, as well as his larger philosophical oeuvre.

In the 12 January 1982 lecture, topics of discussion include: Bergson's Matter and Memory (Ch. 1); the three kinds of images in cinema (action, perception and affection); the Western, a world of perception; montage; subjective images, objective images and the passage between the two; the perception-image and free indirect speech; Italian film director and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini and the stylistic; the cinema of poetry; the fixed consciousness of cinema and of the camera; and the photogram at intervals.

This dataset includes: two mp3 recordings of the lecture (total time, 2:09:55), an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, and the complete French transcription of the recorded lecture in both pdf (29 pp) and plain text.

Note: a) Section 1 of the transcription begins at the (approx.) 0:13 mark of both the part 1 and complete audio files. b) The aggregate audio file has been downsampled.

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Les Séminaires de Deleuze sont une collection d'enregistrements audio, de transcriptions et de traductions en anglais et de documents complémentaires des conférences que le philosophe français Gilles Deleuze a donné lors de sa carrière à l'Université de Paris 8.

«L’image-mouvement, Leҫons bergsoniennes sur le cinéma» était un séminaire de 21 conférences donné de novembre 1981 à juin 1982. Ce séminaire marque le premier de quatre séminaires consécutifs dans lesquels Deleuze présente sa théorie du film. Ici, en grande partie grâce à la philosophie d'Henri Bergson, Deleuze repense le film comme un image-mouvement, par opposition à une succession d'images fixes ou d'images photographiques. Tout au long du cours, il fait référence à une grande variété des cinéastes, des critiques et des philosophes. En tant que précurseur de la publication des premiers volumes de Deleuze sur le cinéma, Cinéma 1. L'Image-Mouvement (1983), ce séminaire est une ressource précieuse pour les chercheurs intéressés par la théorie du film de Deleuze, ainsi que sa plus grande œuvre philosophique.

Dans la conférence du 12 janvier 1982, les sujets de discussion comprennent: Bergson et sa Matière et mémoire (premier chapitre); les trois sortes d'images au cinéma (action, perception et affection); le western (monde de la perception); le montage; images subjectives, images objectives et le passage entre les deux; l'image-perception et le discours indirect libre; le réalisateur et écrivain italien Pier Paolo Pasolini et la stylistique; le cinéma de poésie; la conscience fixe du cinéma et de la caméra; et le photogramme à intervalles.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Gilles Deleuze (2017). The Movement-Image: Bergsonian Lessons on Cinema: Lecture 6, 12 January 1982. Purdue University Research Repository. doi:10.4231/R7TH8JWK

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1. 20th Century French Philosophy
2. Audio Recording
3. Cinematography
4. Consciousness
5. Deleuze Recordings
6. Deleuze Seminars
7. Film
8. Gilles Deleuze
9. Henri Bergson
10. Motion Pictures
11. Philosophy
12. Philosophy and Literature
13. Philosophy (Dept)
14. Photography
15. Pier Paolo Pasolini

This research has been generously supported through a grant from the College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University.

The description of this dataset is based on the meticulous work of Frédéric Astier, whose Les cours enregistrés de Gilles Deleuze, 1979-1987 has catalogued Deleuze’s seminars for those years.

Special thanks to the family of Gilles Deleuze and the University of Paris 8 for permission to reproduce the material published here.