The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: James Williams

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29/10/2025

The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Christine Greiner

The next session of our Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars will be led by Christine Greiner (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo), who will talk about the “Death-Image: modes of existence”. Abstract Based on Vinciane Despret’s studies on the philosopher Étienne Souriau and the urgency of establishing modes of existence for the dead (and for death), we […]

01/10/2025

CfP Death in the Eyes 2: Philosophical Perspectives on Film Genres and Death

NOVA University Lisbon, 28-29 May, 2026 Keynote Speakers: Michele Aaron (University of Warwick) and Jean-Baptiste Thoret (Universitéde Poitiers) Like philosophical categories, film genres function as ways of unifying the manifold of experience, determining under what conditions the particular can be subsumed under the universal. This effort of inclusion lies at the very root of Western […]

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, […]

16/10/2025

New book chapter by Susana Viegas on Androids, Mortality, and Death-Images

A new book chapter by FILM AND DEATH’s PI Susana Viegas is out now. Titled “On Androids, Mortality, and Death-Images: Blade Runner and Westworld”, this new chapter is published in SecondDeath: Experiences of Death Across Technologies, edited by Alger Sans Pinillos, Vicent Costa, and Jordi Vallverdú (Springer, 2025). What happens when cinema makes androids confront […]

16/10/2025

The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Addison Ellis & Byron Davies

The next session of our Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars will be led by Addison Ellis (American University of Cairo) and Byron Davies (University of Murcia), who will talk about “Cinema De Trop: Brakhage and Existentialism”. Abstract Philosophically-informed writing on the U.S. experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) has only cursorily engaged with his relationship to existentialism. Nevertheless, […]

03/10/2025

Join us at the film festival Curt’Arruda

The 11th edition of the film festival Curt’Arruda, happening from October 2-5 at Arruda dos Vinhos, counts with the support of FILM AND DEATH in a session with invited artist Susana Anágua, on October 5 15:30 at Clube Recreativo Desportivo Arrudense (C.R.D.A.). After the session, Pedro Inock, doctoral student at NOVA University Lisbon, and member […]