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Bazin and Merleau-Ponty: Film and Its Ontological Bet
Julio Bezerra
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2017.07.007
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
There is a harmony between André Bazin’s and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s approaches to cinema. They both see cinema as a new imperative language to express the being, capable of reflecting on our promiscuity with the world and things. Both realized the ontological bet that the game of imagination contains: the emergence of the image wrapped in a back and forth movement, from things to form, from fact to sense and meaning, and vice versa. The purpose of this article is to discuss Merleau-Ponty’s and Bazin’s interest in an ontological investigation of the cinema, analyzing their affinities and differences, identifying paths to be explored and affirming a certain idea of cinema.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, André Bazin and ontology
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