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Lives and Deaths in Photographic Tense: Temporality and Filmic Automediality After the Indexical Turn

Starting from descriptions of filmic autobiography as particularly suited for investigations into temporality and tense, and as part of wider considerations of transmedial narratology and transmedial grammar, the essay discusses and exemplifies the analytical use of a paradoxical past tense deictic that is specifically attributed to photography and photographic film and for which linguistic tenses do not offer an equivalent. Aesthetic complexity of filmic autobiography as the effect of photographic tense offers new perspectives on retrospective life narrative and on depictions of mortality in automediality.