Thoughts of deleuze, spinoza and the cinema (The enigma of kaspar hauser)

Abstract

"In this paper I will analyse a sequence from Werner Herzog’s film The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser. In this sequence the film’s protagonist, Kaspar, has what appears to be a profound vision. Such a moment will be explored as the instance of a certain mode of thinking, and what I hope to put forward in this paper, from a semiotic point of view, is the possibility of the passage, revealed by this particular sequence, towards the highest kind of thought in the cinema