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26/07/2024

The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: James Williams

The next Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar (2024-2025) will be led by James Williams (Deakin University, Australia) who will talk about “Death, Démontage and Time in Bande Dessinée as a Precursor to Film: The Works of Jean-Marc Rochette.” The session is hybrid and will be held on October 23, 2024, at 15:00 PM (Lisbon time), at Colégio […]

06/10/2024

Ifilnova Youtube channel

Did you miss any of our recent events? You can catch up on the Ifilnova YouTube channel, where some are available to watch online. For example, Jamieson Webster’s lecture, ‘Breathing and the Unconscious’, has garnered over 1.7K views. You can also find recordings of our Reading Group on Slavoj Žižek’s ‘Lacrimae Rerum’. Stay tuned, more will […]

03/10/2024

NEW Reading Group on Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity” – Spring 2025

Catherine Malabou is mostly known as the philosopher of plasticity, a concept she drew mainly from her groundbreaking interpretation of Hegel. Not only “the nature of that which is ‘plastic’, being at once capable of receiving and of giving form”, plasticity is also the destruction of form as its non-transcendental condition of possibility. “Destructive plasticity” thus concerns the […]

02/10/2024

Susana Viegas’ new open-access article on Haneke’s Death Images

Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke confronts death and violence in his films, using provocative aesthetics to challenge ethical boundaries. This analysis examines how Benny’s Video (1992) and Funny Games (1997) explore mortality through the use of the rewind gesture, sparking a dialogue between the films and their audience. “Death Images in Michael Haneke’s Films” explores the […]

01/10/2024

Marco Grosoli’s new open-access article explores Plasticity in Rivette’s Film Criticism

This article shows the productiveness of “plasticity” (a concept famously developed by French philosopher Catherine Malabou) for cinema, by using Jacques Rivette’s film criticism as a detailed case study. In several greatly influential writings (which have, among others, decisively contributed to the formation of the French New Wave), Rivette relied on an interpretation of Hegel’s philosophy […]