14/03/2025

Pedro Inock on “PHOTON ENGRAVING MACHINES: The zero image limit and beyond (Anti-Image)”

On March 19 3PM, Pedro Inock, a doctoral candidate in the course of Artistic Studies-Art and Mediations at NOVA FCSH and PhD scholar of the project FILM AND DEATH, will present his research work titled “PHOTON ENGRAVING MACHINES: The zero image limit and beyond (Anti-Image)”. The seminar will be conducted in English and it will be held in person.

Abstract Pedro Inock will present a study on the limits of cinematic representation, proposing a hypothesis in which the division between images—the interstice—dissolves at the threshold of light’s velocity. Grounded in film-philosophy and quantum physics, this research maps a space beyond the visible, where emptiness does not interrupt but cancels—or rather annihilates—what remains unsaid, unseen, and untold. This talk begins with an examination of the core apparatuses of cinema and video, exploring how they generate a vacuum that, by undoing meaning in the very act of perception, erases the notion of a highly coveted absolute continuity. From this, a framework emerges for thinking about and analyzing an attempt to surpass the limits of representation by moving beyond the indivisible zero-image. This attempt explores the emergence of an anti-image—not as absence, but as a force that dissolves representation, leaving only the tension of what could have been perceived. Situated between photons, between movement and stillness, this anti-image proposes a new theoretical space where images collapse into themselves.

March 19, NOVA FCSH (Campus Av. de Berna) - A203 (Torre A)

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16/10/2025

The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Addison Ellis & Byron Davies

The next session of our Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars will be led by Addison Ellis (American University of Cairo) and Byron Davies (University of Murcia), who will talk about “Cinema De Trop: Brakhage and Existentialism”. Abstract Philosophically-informed writing on the U.S. experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) has only cursorily engaged with his relationship to existentialism. Nevertheless, […]
01/10/2025

CfP Death in the Eyes 2: Philosophical Perspectives on Film Genres and Death

NOVA University Lisbon, 28-29 May, 2026 Keynote Speakers: Michele Aaron (University of Warwick) and Jean-Baptiste Thoret (Universitéde Poitiers) Like philosophical categories, film genres function as ways of unifying the manifold of experience, determining under what conditions the particular can be subsumed under the universal. This effort of inclusion lies at the very root of Western […]
30/09/2025

Extended Deadline! CfP Special Issue on Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films

We are happy to announce the new home for the Special Issue “Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films”!  The editors have chosen to publish it in Arts, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal (also published online by MDPI) devoted to research on all facets of the visual and performing arts, […]
16/10/2025

New book chapter by Susana Viegas on Androids, Mortality, and Death-Images

A new book chapter by FILM AND DEATH’s PI Susana Viegas is out now. Titled “On Androids, Mortality, and Death-Images: Blade Runner and Westworld”, this new chapter is published in SecondDeath: Experiences of Death Across Technologies, edited by Alger Sans Pinillos, Vicent Costa, and Jordi Vallverdú (Springer, 2025). What happens when cinema makes androids confront […]
03/10/2025

Join us at the film festival Curt’Arruda

The 11th edition of the film festival Curt’Arruda, happening from October 2-5 at Arruda dos Vinhos, counts with the support of FILM AND DEATH in a session with invited artist Susana Anágua, on October 5 15:30 at Clube Recreativo Desportivo Arrudense (C.R.D.A.). After the session, Pedro Inock, doctoral student at NOVA University Lisbon, and member […]
02/10/2025

Welcome to Byron Davies, our first resident!

We are very happy to announce the arrival of Byron Davies to our team, the first short-term resident we’ll receive until the Summer of 2026. Byron Davies is a researcher in philosophy, film programmer, and visual artist originally from the U.S. and a naturalized Mexican citizen. He is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the […]
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