FILM AND DEATH
Organic Unit: FCSH
Research Center: IFILNOVA
FILM AND DEATH aims to demonstrate that film-philosophy contains significant philosophical insights that are best understood by means of film’s ways of thinking of time, finitude, and death and that film’s thinking about finite time gives new meaning to philosophy’s role as a meditation on death.
FILM AND DEATH proposes a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between film and philosophy that claims
One of these thoughts concerns death, a phenomenon of which we have no image but that film renders visible as a death-image. We will assert that the cinematic experience is in itself equal to awareness of one’s own mortality, as a memento mori, without which we would not philosophize at all. To support this, a new conceptual map for studying the ways in which death and time are linked through moving images is proposed.
The project will offer a contemporary view on death as a cultural phenomenon that has shaped twentieth-century thinking in general and films in particular, putting the usual anthropocentric definitions of death into perspective.
The project will question our own paradoxical existential condition as members of a thanatophobic society that rarely focuses on death in the everyday but discusses it readily when it is depicted in movies and TV.
