What constitutes a cinematic event?

Abstract

The  article  concerns  the  question  of  cinematic  event  through  the  discussion  of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou’s different conceptions of the event. Drawing further upon theories of the event, of quasi-causes, and of fractals from contempo-rary physics it proposes a synthesis of the two concepts, suggesting that cinematic events  perhaps  lie  somewhere  between  Badiou’s  and  Deleuze’s  thought,  “in  that  every moment in cinema might constitute an event, be they seemingly ‘empty’ or ‘full’  moments.”  Thus,  rather  than  making  the  distinction  between  the  singular  and  plural  in  the  understanding  of  the  event,  the  article  offers  a  third  way  –  to  “philosophise the ‘singular plural.’”