CINEMA IN GILLES DELEUZE AND ITS CONNECTION WITH BERGSONIAN METAPHYSICS
In Cinema 1 – The Image-Movement and Cinema 2 – The Image Time, Deleuze builds his philosophy of cinema having as a starting point the analysis of Bergsonian metaphysics. The concept of movement, present in The Creative Evolution, and image, in Matter and Memory, are key elements in this process, especially in Cinema 1, a work focused on pre-war cinema. From then on, other Bergsonian concepts will be used with a cinematographic bias. Bergson, who lived with cinema in its early days (end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century), mentions it with a conception very contrary to that which Deleuzian philosophy would later have. Despite this, his criticism of the way in which we build our notion of movement as humans ends up connecting directly to post-montage cinema, fertilizing a very rich soil of philosophical analyzes on the seventh art. Throughout four comments on Bergson, Deleuze merges his Philosophy of Cinema with Bergsonian Metaphysics and shows us great possible interlocutions between art and philosophy, even materializing a common field: duration, which Bergson defines as a philosophical concept and which Deleuze shows which is, in fact, represented in the cinema.