Published: 2025-12-15

Body, Thought, Ethics: A Film Programme Marking the Centenary of Gilles Deleuze’s Birth (1925-1995)

Małgorzata Jakubowska
Cultural Studies Appendix
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zk.2025.12.28

Abstract

This article explores Deleuze’s revolutionary philosophy of cinema, focusing on his innovative approach to the relation between body and thought. Deleuze rejects Cartesian dualism, presenting the “cinematographic body” as an active source of experience and thought. Through the prism of his distinction between the “movement-image” and the “time-image,” he explains how various film forms engage corporeality and temporality, influencing the processes of perception, imagination, and the stimulation of the viewer’s thought. 

The text examines the intellectual montage strategies of Eisenstein and the deconstruction of narrative by Godard, showing cinema as a tool for critical thinking. The article highlights the ethical dimension of his film philosophy where Deleuze concludes that cinema can reveal the impotence of thought, paradoxically becoming a space for a new faith in the world. In conclusion, the author considers the implications of contemporary audiovisual culture for the Deleuzian concept of cinema as an experience that transforms the relationship between body and thought. 

Keywords:

Deleuze, philosophy of cinema, film philosophy, body of cinema, cinematographic body, image-movement, image-time, filmosoph

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Jakubowska, M. (2025). Body, Thought, Ethics: A Film Programme Marking the Centenary of Gilles Deleuze’s Birth (1925-1995). Cultural Studies Appendix, (12), 545–560. https://doi.org/10.21697/zk.2025.12.28

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