“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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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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Join us at the Goethe-Institut Portugal for the cycle “Falar sobre a morte (nunca matou ninguém)”!
Organized by the Goethe-Institut Portugal, with contributions from the FILM AND DEATH team, Death Café, the association Doulas do Fim da Vida, and many other partners, the festival Falar sobre a morte (nunca matou ninguém) [Speaking About Death (Never Killed Anyone)] will open on September 17 at 5:00 pm with the interactive sound installation Memorial […]
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“Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films” is out now!
We are pleased to announce the completion of the Special Issue “Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films”, guest edited by Vasco Baptista Marques and Susana Viegas for Arts. The Special Issue brings together seven original articles examining testament films from a philosophical perspective. Rather than approaching filmmakers’ final works merely as […]
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New Open Access publication by Susana Viegas
We are pleased to share that the book chapter “Derrida on Cinema’s Spectral Images: Time, Repetition, and Belief” by PI Susana Viegas is now available in Open Access through the publisher Brill. Published in “Derrida and Film Studies”, edited by Kamil Lipiński and Andrzej Marzec (Brill, 2025), the chapter explores Jacques Derrida’s reflections on cinema […]
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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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