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Concept and praxis: skepticism and art

No. 68

Dialectics Reality/Truth in Robert Bresson's Notes on Cinematographer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12795/themata.2023.i68.15
Submitted
February 28, 2023
Published
2023-12-30

Abstract

This text seeks to clarify the notion of truth in Robert Bresson's Notes on the cinematographer. The analysis will lead us to establish a separation between the concepts of "reality" and "truth", despite being linked. The notion of "reality" will be fundamentally connected to the notion of indexicality. The "truth" will consist, on the other hand, in the opening or possibility of the meaning of that "real" that is not offered. This tension between "truth" and "reality" integrates, in itself, two other dialectics: between immanence and transcendence and between the activity and passivity of that "real".

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