We are very happy to welcome our new resident, Marina Christodoulou, to the FILM AND DEATH team!
Marina Christodoulou is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Constructor (Jacobs) University, Bremen and a visiting Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and in the Gender Centre at the University of Klagenfurt; she has taught in various universities in Cyprus and Germany as a visitor. During 2025 she was also a visiting Nietzsche Fellow at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. She earned her PhD (Dr. Phil) in Philosophy through a cotutelle between the University of Klagenfurt (Austria) and the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès (France), defending her thesis Life as Addiction in 2022 with distinction. The dissertation examined addiction as a primary ontological modality rather than a pathology and was recognized with the Prix Georges Bastide of the Académie des Sciences, Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de Toulouse for the best philosophical work of the year. She has also previously studied Film and Filmmaking (Edinburgh and Athens) and Gender Studies (Klagenfurt and Paris) and holds an MBA in Digital Business Management. She specialized in Ancient and Continental Philosophy both in her bachelor’s degree and in her master’s and to a large degree her Thesis was also inspired by Ancient Philosophy. A central focus of her current research is what she conceptualizes as “ontological exhaustion” or “ontological-existential exhaustion” as the exhaustion or the fatigue of being as being, or the exhaustion of being/living/existing itself, that is, the ontological and phenomenological condition of “being tired of being”. She is editing two volumes for Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (with republication by Routledge) on “Existential-Ontological Exhaustion: Being-Tired, and Tired-of-Being”, as well as two further co-edited volumes on Exhaustion and Body/Illness/Disability, titled “Disabling Experiences and Exhausted Bodies: Disability Illness Embodiment and Existential Experience”, and on Exhaustion in Art/Literature, titled “Expressions of Aesthetic Fatigue: Perspectives on Ontological Exhaustion in the Arts”. You can access her website here.
During her residency, Marina Christodoulou will deliver a seminar on "Cinema Keeps What It Cannot Save: Death, Duration, and the Ontology of the Moving Image", on June 17, 2026, at 15:00 WEST in room B203. More info here. Click here for registration.
