Poetic Objects
Bachelardian Reverie, Reverberation and Repose in Claire Denis' 35 Shots of Rum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21720370 |
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| Authors | Saige Walton (0000-0001-5213-2484, University of South Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-28 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Film-Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-4615 • E-ISSN: 1466-4615 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/film.2023.0214 |
| OpenAlex | W4315644174 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
This article draws on the interrelated concepts of reverie and repose in Gaston Bachelard's philosophy to approach Claire Denis' poetic foregrounding of objects in 35 Shots of Rum ( 35 Rhums, 2008). Connecting Bachelard's work on time to his later studies of the imagination, I demonstrate how the poetic time of reverie and repose are essential to Bachelard's thinking. Focusing on three especially charged objects (trains, rice cookers and lanterns), I argue for reverie and repose as being embedded into the rhythmic structure, affective organisation and form of Denis' film. Contextualising Bachelard's later thinking in relation to Eugène Minkowski, I maintain that Denis' objects reverberate (both formally and sensuously). In 35 Shots of Rum, Denis' poetic objects and her evocation of different in-between states parallels Bachelard's own materialist thinking on the imagination, reverie and repose
Art · Evocation · Foregrounding · Literature · Parallels · Poetry · Rumble · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cinema and Media Studies · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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