# The Absolute of Pure Difference (2013)

This is a film I've been working on for a few months now, inspired by Zizek's film THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA (2006). Basically I show clips of movies and talk about them from a Jungian-Lacanian (and a little bit Deleuzian) perspective. I also draw heavily from Richard Tarnas' work on archetypal cosmology. The title is "The Absolute of Pure Difference" and it is split between two parts: "The Archetypal" and "The Sacred and the Profane." The first section explores the archetypal dimension of film and how films capture the haecceity, feeling-tone or spirit-of-the-moment of a "quality of time." This qualitative time is a different level of temporality than chronological time -- it's what Deleuze calls ainological time (following Jung's work on Aion). The second half of the film follows Deleuze's definition of art as resistance to the separation of the sacred and the profane, incorporating Jung's work on alchemy, gnosticism and Christian mysticism. Regarding ainological time, it's easy to conceive of with the example Deleuze uses of great philosophers or artists who live a normal 1-directional life in chronological time, but whose contributions send ripples backwards and forwards in ainological time (reinscribing all that came before and informing what comes after). When we refer to a philosopher by a patronym we are using ainological time, the idea that the philosopher "says" this or that even after perishing in chronological time. As for the latter half of the film, I go…

- Kind: Commercial
- Year: 2013
- Runtime: 3 min
- By: Jonah Dempcy
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheAbsoluteOfPureDifference2013)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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