The Digital In-between: Using Gilles Deleuze's concept of 'affect' to theorise slowness in interactive online video

[1] Close Up (Brasier, 2012) is an interactive online video I made to explore the concepts of 'slow' and 'affect' in the online environment. This paper will conceptualise slow in the context of Deleuze's (1986) affection-image as described in Cinema One: The Movement-Image, to then discuss how I used this conceptualisation of slow and affect in the making of a speculative interactive online video entitled Close Up (Brasier, 2012). The intention behind Close Up was to consider Deleuze's affection-image as a means to extend time between noticing and doing within an online context. The project considers this through using what Deleuze (1986) describes as the "affective film par excellence, Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc" as a case study (p. 109). Through emphasising the connections between the affections of The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928) and subordinating the narrative movement from cause to effect Close Up (Brasier, 2012) is meant to be an example of an affective and slow video work within the online environment.