ABSTRACT
The ontology of ‘difference’ is one of the core philosophical articulations by Gilles Deleuze. The idea of foregrounding ‘difference’ rather than ‘identity’ opens up new possibilities to look at the modalities of human cognition and experience. Deleuzean idea of ‘event’ as an unending and ever-proliferating series, which only can be perceived by another important Deleuzean concept of ‘sense’, is an important philosophical departure from various preceding ideas. According to those ideas, the formal distinction between finite and specific nature of ‘occurrence’ gets mixed up with ‘event’. In the present chapter, the Deleuzean concepts like ‘difference’, ‘event’, ‘sense’, including Deleuzean processes of temporalities of a different order (Chronos, Aion), are extended to the domain of experience of cinema. The cinematic comprehension is differentiated with three kinds of ‘flows’, which act at different intensity and propensity, as a film is experienced at various segments of its narrative and/or temporal progression. While citing examples of ‘sense of flows’ from various films, the chapter also touches upon the varied stylistics of ‘long take’ in cinema and proposes to consider ‘long take’ as an example of infinitesimal increments of ‘differences’.
