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19/02/2025

James Williams on “Perishing and Démontage in the Works of Jean-Marc Rochette: a Process Philosophy of Life and Death”

Unfortunately, last October, our Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar with James Williams had to be canceled. But this month, he has kindly shared his notes regarding the theme of his presentation: “Perishing and Démontage in the Works of Jean-Marc Rochette: a Process Philosophy of Life and Death”. To read the full text, and stay updated on his […]

10/02/2025

CfP Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens nº. 63: “Death-Images: Revisiting Deleuze’s “Time-Image” in cinema after 1985”

Death-Images: Revisiting Deleuze’s “Time-Image” in cinema after 1985 In her article “Death as Film-Philosophy’s Muse: Deleuzian Observations on Moving Images and the Nature of Time,” Susana Viegas has shown that Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the “time-image” (i.e. a way for moving images to present time breaking with the conception of the latter as a discrete […]

30/01/2025

Film Studies Research Seminar Series of King’s College London

Susana Viegas is presenting at the Film Studies Research Seminar Series at the Department of Film Studies of King’s College London: “Do Androids Die? Exploring the Life and Death of Technological Beings”. Abstract This talk investigates a growing field of study: posthuman thanato-film analysis, situated at the intersection of philosophies of death, film, and technology. […]

06/01/2025

CfP Swan Songs

Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films Dedicated to the last films of renowned filmmakers, often referred to as “testament films” or “swan songs,” this Special Issue will examine their thematic, narrative, and stylistic elements, viewing these final works as profound summations of their creators’ careers and philosophical syntheses of […]