Image-Correction

Abstract

The article attempts to identify a new type of attitude to time, which appears in the cinema of recent decades and is connected to the presentation of the process of changing the past and moving the hero into an alternative temporal series, with the past with its events being subjected to an optimizing correction. The films of Christ- offer Boe and Hong Sang-soo are the central object of the analysis, but the new modus operandi of the relation to the past revealed here can also be traced in popu- lar cinema. Particular attention is paid to the changing representation of the manip- ulation of the past in science fiction cinema. Examining the “strange” films of recent decades in a broader historical context and comparing them to previous attempts to represent alternative versions of real- ity (for example, the films of Akira Kurosawa and Alain Resnais), allows us to iden- tify “unplacedness” as the main characteristic of the new kind of cinema, when the change of past is not placed in the minds of characters, is not presented as a sub- jective interpretation of reality and is not relegated to the field of the fantastic and the fictional. It is presented as an ontologically real fact, dealing with everyday real- ity. The typology of the image developed by Gilles Deleuze in his book on cinema and the question he posed about the third type of the image make it possible to cre- ate the concept of the ”image-correction” uniting the phenomena in question. As an alternative to both “image-movement” and “image-time”, “image-correction” charac- terizes a new epoch in the history of cinema and creates conditions for its retroactive revision as a history of “corrective manipulation of time.”