ABSTRACT
In Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, Deleuze and Guattari point to three characteristics of minor literature: deterritorialisation of language, immediate connection between the individual and political, and the collective assemblage of enunciation. The artist, because of his/her minor and weak position, can create a people never existed, a people to come. This chapter deals with the concept of becoming minor, specifically with reference to cinema. The goal is to make clear and deepen the connection between minority and the ‘power of false’ (Time-Image). Modern cinema unhinges the element of truthfulness, that is the encounter of the two points of view, thereby making impossible any definite identification. The power of the false offers to the characters, as well as the director, the political possibility to invent her story into ‘the flagrant offence of making up legends’.
