Thirdly, we will try to understand the “reatualistic” potentiality of cinema by means of an investigation into the nature of the ritual and thereby move away from cinema studies’ representational paradigm and see how the virtual (Deleuze) in reatualistic cinema confronts and intervenes in the real. Secondly, I will investigate briefly his film as a case in point of “cinema as reatual”. To clarify cinema as a possible vehicle for a ritual to happen, I will firstly present the concept of REATUAL by the Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bekolo. And if there exists some movie-made ritual, then ipso facto movie-made ritual is feasible. Can a ritual exist by means of moving image? Can one undergo a ritual through moving pictures? I will try to show that there are cases of movie-made rituals. If film can represent, provoke, advance, be structured like and even invent or produce rituals, the question arises whether it might also be possible for a film to be a ritual. Filmmakers compel rituals through the moving image.
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