Form faces out

The cinema presents us with the perpetual “becoming” of the movement-image. But, according to Giorgio Agamben, our relationship to the image is characterized by a desire to “capture,” inhibiting our ability to see images this way. Understood as an act of framing, this capture (a drive toward the inside of image), manifests in our acts of looking. Engaging the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze on cinema, Form Faces Out considers the concept of the out-of-field– that which relates the “captured” part to the Open whole. Through reflections on the thesis project The Here To Gathered and other works of art shown recently in Vancouver, the out-of-field is seen to destabilize the frame, making possible a form of futurity that has no known characteristics other than that it is “to come.” This form of futurity opens images up to the meaning of circulation– the sharing of being.