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13/02/2026

The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Vasco Baptista Marques

The next session of our Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars will be led by our very own Vasco Baptista Marques (NOVA University of Lisbon / IFILNOVA), who will talk about «”I See Dead People”: Neoliberalism as Purgatory in Christian Petzold’s Yella». Abstract At least up to Barbara (2012), all the feature-length films that Christian Petzold directed for […]

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, […]

20/02/2026

Marco Grosoli at Global Bertolucci (University of Cambridge)

Our post-doctoral fellow, Marco Grosoli, will be present at the Global Bertolucci conference, on March 5-6, at the University of Cambridge. His presentation is titled “Global Mobility as Veil of Maya. On Histoire d’eaux“. Histoire d’eaux (2002) enacts the Indian parable recounted in Prima della rivoluzione (1964). An old Hindu asks a young man (an […]

19/02/2026

Welcome Daniel Conway, our new resident!

We are very pleased to welcome Daniel Conway as the second short-term resident to join our team. Daniel Conway is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Texas A&M University. He has published and lectured widely on post-Kantian European philosophy, political philosophy, aesthetics (with a particular focus on film and literature), philosophy of education, and genocide studies. During […]

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 […]