16/06/2025

Our team will be at the Film-Philosophy Conference 2025 (L-Università ta’ Malta)

From June 23 to June 25, the Valetta Campus of the University of Malta will host the Film-Philosophy Conference 2025. Our team will present a panel titled Death-Images, on the first day, June 23, at 3:45PM (Room 103).

This panel explores the concept of the death-image through the work of Alain Resnais, focusing on what Deleuze termed “Lazarean” characters, i.e., those who return “from the land of the dead (…) Auschwitz or Hiroshima, Guernica or the Algerian War” (Cinema 2).

Through close readings of Resnais’s films, the panel examines how cinema becomes a philosophical medium for engaging with the metaphysical, historical, and affective dimensions of death, memory, and time.

Presentations include:

  • Susana Viegas, “Death-Images: Gilles Deleuze on Alain Resnais’ ‘Lazarean’ Characters”, examining Guernica (1950) as a philosophical engagement with trauma, history, and temporality through the figure of the returned dead.
  • Lucas Ferraço Nassif, “Iron Becomes Vulnerable Flesh: Conceptualizing the Death-Image in Hiroshima Mon Amour”, connecting the death-image with dreams, psychoanalysis, and the war machine through the character of Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959).
  • Marco Grosoli, “With and Without You: Resnais’s New Lazarean Subject in Love unto Death (1984)”, analyzing how Love unto Death shifts Resnais’s engagement with death from historical trauma to a meta-historical, eschatological meditation.
  • Vasco Marques, “Difference and Repetition: The Reconfiguration of Death and the Lazarean Subject in Alain Resnais’s You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet”, tracing Resnais’s late style as a testamentary reflection on cinema, memory, and the persistence of the dead through duplications and the crystal-image.

Also, on June 24 9AM (Room 3), Pedro Inock will be presenting “ULTRAVIOLENCE: ‘Framing’ a Content-(un)Aware Glance”.

More informations about the Film-Philosophy Conference 2025 available here.

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