“I am afraid that other people do not realize that the one aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death.”
Welcome to FILM AND DEATH
FILM AND DEATH defends the hypothesis that to film-philosophize is to learn to die. This will be achieved by rethinking the innovations that film brings to recent philosophies of death and the metaphysics of time. A new criterion for understanding the relationship between film and philosophy is proposed that claims 1) that film-philosophy’s methodology is a meditation on death, and 2) that films think and have their own ways of creating novel thoughts that are not our own. One of these thoughts concerns death, a phenomenon of which we have no image but that film renders visible as a death-image (a direct image of passing time, facing the impossibility of any representation). We will assert that the cinematic experience is in itself equal to awareness of one’s own mortality, as a memento mori, without which we would not philosophize at all.
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The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Corey Cribb
August’s next Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar will be led by Corey Cribb (Technological University Dublin) who will talk about “Death Begets Meaning: French Film Theory, Sense and the Philosophy of Death”. Abstract In this talk, I will isolate one of the throughlines of my forthcoming monograph on the question of sense in French film theory and […]
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CfP Mediapolis: “Urban Deathscapes: Media, Spaces of Death, and the Contemporary City”
Mediapolis Themed Dossier: “Urban Deathscapes: Media, Spaces of Death, and the Contemporary City” (Vol. 11, No. 3) Edited by: Susana Viegas (NOVA FCSH) Every city must negotiate the place of its dead. Cemeteries, crematoria, memorial parks, roadside shrines, temporary memorials, and other deathscapes form an often-overlooked layer of the urban fabric, revealing how societies negotiate memory, […]
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CfW [in]Transition Special Issue: Screening Death
[in]Transition Special Issue: Screening Death Guest Editors: David H. Fleming (University of Stirling): david.fleming@stir.ac.ukPedro Inock (NOVA University of Lisbon): pedroinock@gmail.com Projected Publication Date: Summer 2027 Mission & Scope (Call For Works): Visual media do not simply represent and remediate death; they actively shape political responses, ethical debates, and practices of public mourning. This special ‘Screening […]
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Join Anderson Santos and Lucas Ferraço Nassif at the Centro Português de Psicanálise
On September 1, 7:00 PM, the Centro Português de Psicanálise (R. da Assunção 7, 2º) will host a talk by Anderson Santos, moderated by Lucas Ferraço Nassif, on “Félix Guattari: Psicanálise e o Paradigma Ético-Estético”. This presentation will be in Portuguese. This presentation addresses the shift initiated by Félix Guattari within psychoanalysis, as he proposes […]
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New video! Watch our conversation with Darius Marder at the Cinemateca Portuguesa
During the month of March 2026, in partnership with NOVA FCSH, Teatro Avenidas and the BANDUA project, the FILM AND DEATH project co-organized the Film and Debate Cycle 4 Filmes, 4 Conversas: Saúde Mental, Trabalho e Género [4 Films, 4 Conversations: Mental Health, Work and Gender], curated by Susana Viegas, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Pedro Florêncio […]
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New publication by Natacha Gallucci
We are happy to announce that Natacha Gallucci, visiting researcher at FILM AND DEATH, has coedited, along with Tomás Solari Lima, a new issue of the journal Lampião: Revista de Filosofia, Vol. 6, Issue 1 (2025), focused on a Filomove Dossier: Archive, Memory and Performance in Latin America, out now and in open-access. This special issue brings […]
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New article by Lucas Ferraço Nassif in Viso: Cadernos de Estética Aplicada
We are happy to announce that Lucas Ferraço Nassif, member of the FILM AND DEATH team, has just published an article titled “Poetics of Fort-Da: Elephant Wars in the Semiotic Unconscious” in Viso – Cadernos de Estética Aplicada, v. 20, n. 38 (jan/jun 2026). Abstract Based on Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s critical readings of […]
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New article by Cían Ó Donnchadha published in our Arts Special Issue on Swan Songs
The guest editors of the Arts’ Special Issue on Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films, Vasco Baptista Marques and Susana Viegas, are pleased to announce the publication of a new open-access article: ““Blue, Upon Your Grave”: The Testament of Derek Jarman in Blue (1996)” by Cían Ó Donnchadha. This article develops an understanding of […]
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