Abstract: The perception of film time is an important issue in film studies, and film duration is a typical perceptual experience of film time for the audience. Deleuze discussed the time duration of images, but he did not analyze the dynamics of its occurrence from the  perspective of the audience’s consciousness activity; back    to the reality of film viewing, the audience’s attention plays a fundamental role in the emergence of film duration. In principle, films take advantage of the phenomenon of time duration to visualize the duration, while the audience’s attention constructs and reveals the experience of film duration through time delays.
Specifically, long shots take the movements of actions, relationships and situations as clues to create images of duration, while the audience’s attention constructs the experience of duration by participating in the simultaneous presence of many states of life; the static narrative in the film uses slow-paced daily routines with white space as forms of expression to create images of duration, while the audience’s attention captures the sense of duration in the repetition of states of consciousness.

Key words: film duration, audience, attention, film time, film perception, film phenomenology