This paper aims to continue the debate began by Gilles Deleuze about the impulse-image and evaluate in which ways these images exist in contemporary Brazilian cinema. In order to describe how the impulse-images produce a new thought in Cinema, it's retrieved the psychoanalytic concept of Drive in Sigmund Freud's theory and its use by Herbert Marcuse in Sociology. In this work, it's concluded that the impulse-image in contemporary cinema does not characterize films in its strict sense, but it's found dispersed in scenes from different films, also having an important role in the relationships between originary worlds and derived milieux.
impulse-image; cinema; Gilles Deleuze; Brazilian cinema
