hyalosigns

Noun

hyalosign (plural hyalosigns)

1. (film theory) In the context of Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy, particularly in his work Cinema 2: The Time-Image, a specific type of cinematic image that embodies a fusion of the actual and the virtual, often illustrated through motifs like mirrors or crystals. These images disrupt linear temporality, creating a direct presentation of time in film.
   • This is a progress in relation to the opsign : we saw how the crystal (the hyalosign) ensures the correlate of the opsign and the sonsign.1989, Gilles Deleuze, translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta, Cinema 2: the Time-Image, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, translation of Cinéma 2, L’Image-temps (in French), pages...