27/03/2025

The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Federico Rossin

The next Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar will be led by Federico Rossin, who will talk about “How experimental cinema deals with death”. Federico Rossin is a film historian and curator in the fields of experimental, documentary, and animation cinema, and an independent programmer for worldwide festivals (among others: États généraux du film documentaire de Lussas, Cinéma du Réel, DocLisboa) and cinematheques (among others: Film Museum Vienna, Cinémathèque Française, Cineteca Italiana). He published seven books and regularly collaborates with various magazines (among others: Il Manifesto, Cahiers du cinéma).

The session is hybrid and will be held on April 16, 2025, at 11h00 WEST / 13h00 EET, at NOVA FCSH (room A206) and online, via Zoom. To receive information about joining the meeting online, it’s mandatory to register in advance here.

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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, […]
05/02/2026

New publication by Marco Grosoli on Raul Ruiz’s “Mysteries of Lisbon”

We are happy to announce a new publication by postdoctoral researcher Marco Grosoli. Titled “Anamorphosis of the Novelistic. Raul Ruiz’s Mysteries of Lisbon“, and published in the journal Fata Morgana 57 (2026), the full issue is available for subscribers here. In Raul Ruiz’s films, literature has always been of paramount importance: unsurprisingly, his most testamentary […]
26/01/2026

New publication by our team: “Death-Images: Revisiting Deleuze’s ‘Time-Image’ in Cinema after 1985”

As invited guest editors, Susana Viegas, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Marco Grosoli and Vasco Baptista Marques are pleased to share “Death-Images: Revisiting Deleuze’s ‘Time-Image’ in Cinema after 1985” (Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens | Journal of Communication and Languages no. 63), published by the NOVA Institute of Communication – ICNOVA of NOVA University Lisbon. Marking forty years since […]
22/01/2026

New article published in our Arts Special Issue on Swan Songs

The editors of Swan Songs, Vasco Baptista Marques and Susana Viegas, are pleased to announce the publication of a new open-access article: “Lola Montès: Max Ophüls’s Final Dive into Circularity and Repetition” by Carlos Natálio. This article provides a reading of “Lola Montès” (1955), Max Ophüls’ last work, in light of the idea of it possibly […]
09/01/2026

“Whose Deaths Are Worth Mourning? Gendered Death in a Turkish TV Series” by Gülce Zeynep Bektaş

Whose Deaths Are Worth Mourning? Gendered Death in a Turkish TV Series By Gülce Zeynep Bektaş (Yeditepe University) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18198472 One of Turkey’s most-watched TV series, the mafia-themed Valley of the Wolves (Kurtlar Vadisi, 2003-2005) and its sequel series, Valley of the Wolves: Ambush (Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu, 2007–2016) frequently portray death, but not all of them […]
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