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 […]
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 […]
Christine Reeh-Peters has published a new open-access article exploring the concept of a spectral ethics of film
The article “The Non-Anthropocentric Other in Film: Towards a Spectral Ethics of Film“ is part of the Special Issue Cinema and Philosophy: Exploring the Intersections of Time, Identity, Ethics, and Aesthetics, edited by Bernd Herzogenrath for the online journal Philosophies. The article seeks to develop a speculative and spectral ethics of film, grounded in an […]
Sabzian spotlights Lucas Ferraço Nassif’s book in Chantal Akerman book recommendations
The international film journal Sabzian recommended Lucas Ferraço Nassif’s book Missing Links along with other Chantal Akerman’s books in their Spring+ Summer 2024 new books session. Missing Links was released in 2023 and received the Award from the Association of Moving Image Researchers [AIM] for Best Monograph. You can find more about the book and […]
XV Congreso de la Sociedad Hispánica de Antropología Filosófica
Susana Viegas will present the FILM AND DEATH project at the XV Congreso de la Sociedad Hispánica de Antropología Filosófica: Sobre la Muerte, held at the Catholic University of Valencia, Spain, from September 25 to 27. + details