Thanks everyone who provided the exact reference in the English edition
of Deleuze. Now that I have re-read it, I see that the concept relates
to how one can see/sense in an image the history (social as well as
natural history) of a landscape or environment: from 'archaic' traces
through to civilised (or very uncivilised!) times. In terms of other
theorists/critics who have addressed this, Paul Willlemen talks about
it a lot, eg in his book LOOKS AND FRICTIONS: in Amos Gitai, Straub &
Huillet, various others - and I heard him in Singapore last year do a
sketch of a stratiagraphic analysis of Hou's CAFE LUMIERE, how it ends
with the trains, the people, the body of water, etc: all different
'time frames', interlacing histories, at different rhythms of
development, etc. Paul summed up by saying that what advanced
filmmakers like Hou explore is the question: 'how to show the workings
of such complex histories in an image?' Serge Daney also wrote about
this in relation to Straub & Huillet: TOO SOON TOO LATE in 1982. But
I'm not sure if GERRY fits: the landscape is archaic alright, but where
is the complex overlay of the history that takes us, in and through
that landscape, to the social? This is what I think Deleuze's concept
is all about.
Adrian
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