The FILM AND DEATH project is organizing an international workshop on The Life of Images: Death, Materiality and Animist Cinema at NOVA FCSH, Lisbon, on 11-13 February 2027. A face that breathes beyond itself, a maid who buries herself in the earth, a man dissolving into the river: these are the kinds of moments this […]
Diana Neiva at the 12th Iberian Meeting in Aesthetics
On October 23, Diana Neiva will present at the 12th Iberian Meeting in Aesthetics, taking place at FLUP – Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. Her presentation is titled “Horror without definition: collective attention and genre recognition”. Abstract Horror film is one of the most recognisable and simultaneously most definition-resistant of […]
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Maria Serafini
October’s next Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar will be led by Maria Serafini (University of Milan) who will talk about “At the Limits of Mediation: Eulogy, Digital Afterlife and the Media of Finitude”. Abstract What happens when an image no longer marks the distance between the living and the dead, but promises to overcome it? Taking the […]
CfP Death in the Eyes 3 – The Iconographies of Death in Cinema: Personae, Representations, and Imaginaries
University of L’Aquila (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila), Italy, 24-25 June 2027 Keynote Speakers: Stacey Abbott (Northumbria University, UK) and Katarzyna Ancuta (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) Few cinematic images have entered the collective imagination as profoundly as Death in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet, 1957). A pale-faced man cloaked in a long black mantle, challenging […]