10/11/2023

Death, from painting to film: philosophical conversations

Vorágine – Revista Interdisciplinaria de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales is open for submissions for the dossier issue “Death, from Painting to Film: Philosophical Conversations”, coordinated by PhD Susana Viegas (IFILNOVA – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa).

Deadline: 31 March 2023.

The dossier issue is dedicated to the relationship between painting and moving images (cinema, TV Series, expanded cinema, etc.), by questioning the ways death is represented and imagined by both forms of art and prompting future film-philosophical conversations within visual and cultural studies. It aims to clarify not only death’s unquestionable omnipresence in film, for example as a narrative motif or ontological structure, but to offer a critical analysis of the theoretical closeness between philosophy and film and of film as a contemporary trope of memento mori. Themes of interest include the following subjects:

  • Death and the sublime in painting and film (vanitas, memento mori, etc.);
  • Death and the iconic turn;
  • The limits of aestheticism and mannerism in painting and film;
  • Film’s temporal ecstasies: the depth of field, the slow motion, distorted and blurred images, the sublime of the now;
  • Contemporary philosophers: Han, Sobchack, Derrida, Lévinas, Cavell, Deleuze, Foucault, Sontag…

Submissions: convocatoria@revistavoragine.com.

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Workshop: Introduction to Videographic Criticism, Cinema & Video Art

On June 16 and July 8, 15:00-18:00 WEST, David H. Fleming and Pedro Inock, members of the FILM AND DEATH team, will lead the workshop “Introduction to Videographic Criticism, Cinema & Video Art”. Throughout the two-session workshop, participants will explore videographic criticism, video essays, and video art as forms of research, thinking, and artistic practice. […]
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The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Marina Christodoulou

June’s next Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar will be led by our visiting researcher Marina Christodoulou (Constructor (Jacobs) University) who will talk about “Cinema Keeps What It Cannot Save: Death, Duration, and the Ontology of the Moving Image”. Abstract This talk and accompanying essay-film will examine cinema as a medium in which death is not merely represented but […]
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Welcoming Marina Christodoulou

We are very happy to welcome our new resident, Marina Christodoulou, to the FILM AND DEATH team! Marina Christodoulou is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Constructor (Jacobs) University, Bremen and a visiting Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and in the Gender Centre at the University of Klagenfurt; she has taught in various universities in […]
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New article by Diana Neiva 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: “Rebooting Death: Wes Craven’s Scream 4 as Testament Film” by Diana Neiva. This paper examines Wes Craven’s Scream 4 (2011) […]
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