How can the cinema function as a means of ethical resistance and thought? Untimely Affects offers an interweaving of philosophy and close film analysis to discern the power and potential of art in the face of global ongoing devastations and horrors. In this first extensive analysis of Chris Marker and Alain Resnais s works together, Untimely Affects draws on concepts and images that interrogate wounds and layers of a recent past in relation to a time yet to come. Through its weave of cine-philosophy and the idea of the ever new, Untimely Affects speaks to limits and potentials of cinema, thought, self and life.