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02/10/2024

Susana Viegas’ new open-access article on Haneke’s Death Images

Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke confronts death and violence in his films, using provocative aesthetics to challenge ethical boundaries. This analysis examines how Benny’s Video (1992) and Funny Games (1997) explore mortality through the use of the rewind gesture, sparking a dialogue between the films and their audience. “Death Images in Michael Haneke’s Films” explores the […]

01/10/2024

Marco Grosoli’s new open-access article explores Plasticity in Rivette’s Film Criticism

This article shows the productiveness of “plasticity” (a concept famously developed by French philosopher Catherine Malabou) for cinema, by using Jacques Rivette’s film criticism as a detailed case study. In several greatly influential writings (which have, among others, decisively contributed to the formation of the French New Wave), Rivette relied on an interpretation of Hegel’s philosophy […]

25/09/2024

Christine Reeh-Peters has published a new open-access article exploring the concept of a spectral ethics of film

The article “The Non-Anthropocentric Other in Film: Towards a Spectral Ethics of Film“ is part of the Special Issue Cinema and Philosophy: Exploring the Intersections of Time, Identity, Ethics, and Aesthetics, edited by Bernd Herzogenrath for the online journal Philosophies. The article seeks to develop a speculative and spectral ethics of film, grounded in an […]

24/09/2024

Sabzian spotlights Lucas Ferraço Nassif’s book in Chantal Akerman book recommendations

The international film journal Sabzian recommended Lucas Ferraço Nassif’s book Missing Links along with other Chantal Akerman’s books in their Spring+ Summer 2024 new books session. Missing Links was released in 2023 and received the Award from the Association of Moving Image Researchers [AIM] for Best Monograph. You can find more about the book and […]