Mulholland Drive: the singer collapses but the song continues

As told 4

“an actress is singer is singing on stage she collapses the singing goes on this is the moment of the real”
1:49:44 The Interaction with the Other in Hegel2009 · 2:07:30

“for that couple of seconds, when we are confused, we confront this nightmarish dimension of an autonomous partial object.”
~23:46 The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006)2006 · 2:30:11

“the woman is singing, she collapses, the singing goes on. For a brief moment you're almost afraid, my god, does a voice survive on its own?”
~59:03 The Divine Details: Enjoyment and Ideology in Cinema2008-08-20 · 1:57:12

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

death drive ×2 Wille (Will) ×2 partial objects ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Sergio Leone3 George Balanchine2 Susan Sontag2 Michael Powell1 Nikita Mikhalkov1 Agnieszka Holland1 Mikhail Chiaureli1 Atom Egoyan1

alongside works

Mulholland Drive4 Once Upon a Time in America3 Nostalghia2 The Red Shoes2 The Wizard of Oz1 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith1 Rear Window1 Pluto's Judgment Day1

Told together with

40% Balanchine ballet with Webern: music stops, dancing continues 2 shared talks 40% Stalker (Tarkovsky) 2 shared talks 40% Once Upon a Time in America, phone ringing after pickup 2 shared talks 29% Don Giovanni and the Stone Guest 2 shared talks 20% Hardcore porn and narrative censorship 2 shared talks 11% They Live / critique of ideology glasses 2 shared talks

Every retelling 4

1:49:44 The Interaction with the Other in Hegel2009 · 2:07:30

In Lynch's film, a singer on stage collapses but the music (a playback) keeps going, like the Cheshire Cat's smile surviving the cat. The persistence of appearance after the substance withdraws is the Lacanian Real as death drive., illustrating Lacanian Real,death drive,appearance without substance

~23:46 The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006)2006 · 2:30:11

A woman singing on stage collapses from exhaustion but the song continues (revealed as playback), for those seconds of confusion we confront the nightmarish dimension of an autonomous voice persisting without its body., illustrating voice as partial object,partial objects,death drive

~59:03 The Divine Details: Enjoyment and Ideology in Cinema2008-08-20 · 1:57:12

In Lynch's Mulholland Drive a woman is singing in a nightclub, collapses, but the singing continues, for a moment the spectator fears the voice has survived its body, enacting the Cheshire Cat operation of spectral autonomy., illustrating spectral voice,Cheshire Cat operation

59:49 Why Todestrieb is a Philosophical Concept2009-03-06 · 1:29:44

In Lynch's Mulholland Drive, a singer collapses but the song continues (it was playback). For a brief moment there is confusion, the source of voice disappears yet the singing goes on, figuring the excess of life beyond embodiment., illustrating Wille (Will),life substance beyond representation