There are images that seem to want to stop time. Originally written and conceived in the late 1940s, but only made more than half a century later, The Strange Case of Angélica (2010) tells the story of how a photograph of a dead woman becomes, for Isaac, a disturbing presence – somewhere between desire and […]
Susana Viegas will be at the ‘Philosophy of the City Conference’
At the ‘Philosophy of the City Conference’, hosted by the Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University in Prague (15-17 October 2026), Susana Viegas will present the paper ‘Chantal Akerman and the City as a Space of Exhausted Life’. Building on her ongoing research on the death-image, Viegas examines how Chantal Akerman’s ‘News from Home’ (1976) and […]
New Open Access article by Susana Viegas on Cavell and Deleuze
What can death reveal about the unexpected connection between Cavell and Deleuze? Susana Viegas has published the open-access article ‘Cavell and Deleuze: Genre as Medium, Death as Image’, part of the Philosophies dossier ‘Film-Philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze’, edited by Jeroen Gerrits & Sandra Laugier. Following her recent presentation at ‘Stanley Cavell at 100: An […]
New Open Access article by Lucas Ferraço Nassif
We are happy to share that Lucas Ferraço Nassif, our post-doc researcher and FILM AND DEATH team member, has just published a new article titled “The epistemology of dizziness in psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis: Individuation, screen-based media, and the production of unconsciouses” in Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental (2026), no. 29. Concerned with the reconceptualization of […]