A Few Problems and Examples of Heat in Film

The text is devoted to the presence of heat in cinema: how to conceive of a modality that remains ungraspable to the audiovisuality of film? The issue of heat is thus examined through a series of examples: at first, heat is seen only as a tool of deformation and destruction of the image. Upon further examination, however, it is shown that such a clear dualism is problematic. With the analysis of Kariokinesis (Kariokineza, 1965) by Zlatko Hajdler, the text shows how heat can figure as internal to image-making. Heat becomes the core cinematic means, creating and destroying images at once.

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