On the contrivance of the cinematographer

In several essays and in the final chapter of Creative Evolution, Henri Bergson employs what he calls the "cinematographical apparatus" as an analogy for how the intellect approaches reality. This analogy appears within Bergson's epistemological dualism, where intuition is placed alongside the intellect as a means of acquiring absolute knowledge. According to Bergson "movement is reality itself". The intellect is by nature a spatializing mechanism, which means that to acquire knowledge it employs concepts, symbols, abstraction, analysis, and fragmentation. Hence the intellect can only express movement -reality itself- in static terms.

In another futile attempt to short-circuit the intellect, Sam Renseiw post a short sequence of movement, while a dual intellect can be seen, statically fixed, on some higher horizon. View it here, or enter the setting above. (patafilm # 181, 01'03'', 4.8 MB, quicktime/mov - Flash version here)