Weighing the interval

Deleuze perhaps provides a means of tracing a continuum of magnitude (be it a felt duration or some measure of intensity or of weight) capable of organizing the variability of the interval. “The more the reaction ceases to be immediate and becomes truly possible action, the more the perception becomes distant and anticipatory and extracts the virtual action of things” (Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, 65). I doubt this “measure” of the interval can exhaust or encapsulate all approaches or ramifications of the interval itself, but it is useful for investigations of both cinema and thought. When Deleuze reintroduces the concept of “framing” as it relates to the interval (Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, 62), one might be tempted to find an equation or ratio that relates the delay to the amount of analysis performed, or the fundamental potential for analysis. I would not hesitate in suggesting that this relationship would be insufficiently represented in a linear fashion, more often than not. Is the notion of “diminishing returns” relevant at some point in the extending of this relationship? The time-image, as well as the conditions that accompany it or bring it into focus, might assist one in creating hypotheses.