ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the two aspects of aesthetic experience. One examines the interpenetration of subjects and objects; the fast, slow dynamics of an aesthetics of duree that can be understood as traversing the space 'between' the object and the viewer. The other, more directly continuing the concerns of the crystal-image. The theme of the crystal-image and mystical experience has previously been taken up by Michael Goddard in "The Scattering of Time-Crystals: Deleuze, Mysticism and Cinema". The chapter discusses the proposal of an onto-ethical desire that has been emerging through the consideration of subtle bodies that has close affinities with desire as formulated by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. It also explains the relationship between Mr Chow and Mrs Chan takes place in the time of the meanwhile, dans l'intervalle: both in the sense of the interval as a measured, regular 'space' that suffuses the timing of the film.
