“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.
Reading Group on Catherine Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity”
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Federico Rossin
New book chapter by Susana Viegas
Ciclo de Cinema e Psicanálise: Lynch e o (In)consciente Múltiplo
Death in the Eyes: Thinking and Representing Human Disappearance in Cinema
CfP Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens nº. 63: “Death-Images: Revisiting Deleuze’s “Time-Image” in cinema after 1985”
