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)
📸 Tacita Dean “FILM” Turbine Hall - Tate Modern, 2012
