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Ethereal Impressions In Chambers: the Crystal-Image as Semiotic Key
Short Film Studies (2012)
  • Matthew A. Holtmeier, University of St Andrews
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Abstract
In Chambers imagines a science-fictional experience for comatose patients. Working as a puzzle, this film does not reveal the reality of the comatose patients until its conclusion. By unlocking the coma experience through a circuit of images, In Chambers revises the potential of the what Gilles Deleuze refers to as the crystal image not only to collate past and present, but to articulate a concept as well.
Keywords
  • Deleuze,
  • coma,
  • crystal image,
  • flashback,
  • memory,
  • time
Disciplines
Publication Date
February, 2012
DOI
10.1386/sfs.2.2.245_1
Citation Information
Matthew A. Holtmeier. "Ethereal Impressions In Chambers: the Crystal-Image as Semiotic Key" Short Film Studies Vol. 2 Iss. 2 (2012) p. 245 - 249 ISSN: 2042-7824
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/matthew-holtmeier/41/