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Subject: [AE] Fwd: Reminder CfP: International Lisbon Conference on Philosophy
and Film
International Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film:
Thinking reality and time through film
7-10 May of 2014
Organized by CFUL - Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa
(www.centrodefilosofia.com)
Hosted by Faculty of Letters and GoetheInstitut Lisbon
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CALL FOR PAPERS - The deadline for abstract submission isB 31stB October,
2013
During the last two decades film has been increasingly recognized as a
medium of philosophical reflection, in an ontological and epistemological
perspective. But what does it mean to understand film as philosophizing? Can
we access specific, reliable knowledge of the world and our relation to it
through the aesthetic form of moving images? Considering filmbs claim of
continuity with the world - what is the essence of film and what is exactly
its connection with reality?
Usually time and space are considered the essential constituents of film b
yet they are as well our ontic and ontological condition to understand
reality. In this context classical film theory and its philosophical
development (Kracauer, Benjamin, Bazin, Cavell, and Deleuze) are reassessed
with transcendental and speculative questions. Benjamin, for example, has
pointed out how through the invention of film reality has lost its status of
uniqueness and authenticity. What are the consequences of the implicit
assertion to face the world as a contingent possibility out of many? And what
about the bMyth of total cinemab evoked by Bazin b the perfect artistic
creation of a virtual world that conflates with reality? Space-time is the
way, how we structure the world and orient ourselves in it. Different
philosophers have been dealing with theB aporiaB of time and approached its
apparent negativity in distinct ways. For all of them the question about time
implies a question about space and being, or, in other words, requires a
reflection on the relation of motion and matter.
Film also evokes the phantasmagorical presence of something, which is
absent, an immaterial after-death reality. In this sense, Barthes defined the
photographed moment as an anticipation of the instant of the death of the
objects and subjects depicted. The film negative is assembled out of 24 static
frames per secondbapplied to Barthesb theory that would be 24 instances of
death. The immediate succession of the next frame creates than an apparent
continuity. We can therefore only indirectly assist a stepping-beyond of
natural time into death, at each frame. The disclosure of death in film is
obscured by moving the images, creating an illusion of life. Bergson
understood the illusionary mechanism of film as a paradox metaphor for the
usual relation of mind and reality: that which is moving is made graspable
through its opposite. For Heidegger the continuity of time is bound by the
nexus of life (Lebenszusammenhang) givenB byB Dasein. Connecting life and
film, Deleuze raised the question of the world literally to be film, similar
to Pasolini who claimed life as cinema in nature. IsB being-in-the-world
aB being-in-film?
Another line of enquiry could be designated as the fascination with the
reality effect, opening up a threefold domain: the bhypperrealb vertigo
pursued by technical constructions of the filmic realm and of spectatorship,
such as 3D movies, digital camera and computer-generated images; the Lacanian
distinction between reality and the Real, instrumental in E=iE>ekbs
theorizing of film; the paradoxical technical construction of a kind of image
corresponding to a seeming natural perception in some brealisticb cinema
such as the works of the Portuguese filmmakers JoC#o Canijo or Pedro Costa,
among others.
Within the general ideas of this conference, we invite to reflect on reality
and time by asking for the ontology and essence of film. In this context the
double-questions of time and space, motion and matter, life and death,
finitude and infinity, multitude and authenticity are proposed to be the
centre of the conference themes.B The following list of topics intends to be
suggestive, and by no means exhaustive:
- Film and time
- Ontology of the moving image
- Metaphysical filmworlds
- Limits of film: Infinity, death, nothing and reality
- Speculative realism and film
- Accessing the Real through film
- Filmmakers of the time-image
- Effects of reality: Realism and film
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Confirmed keynotes speakers up to date:
Noel Carroll (City University New York), James ConantB (University of
Chicago), Carlos JoC#o Correia (Universidade de Lisboa), Joseph
FrC<chtlB (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Markus GabrielB (UniversitC$t Bonn),
JosC) Manuel Martins (University of Evora), Maria Filomena
MolderB (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Robert Pippin (University of Chicago),
Patricia Pisters (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Christine ReehB (Universidade
de Lisboa), Zbigniew RybczyEski (WrocEaw Visual Technology Studios), Mirjam
Schaub (Freie UniversitC$t Berlin), Peter SloterdijkB (Hochschule fC<r
Gestaltung Karlsruhe), AndrC)B UjicaB (Hochschule fC<r Gestaltung Karlsruhe),
and Peter Weibel (Zentrum fC<r Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe)
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Each abstract (300 to 400 words) must contain the title of the paper,
author(s), affiliation, short notes on CV (max. 150 words) and email. Please
also add 4 to 6 keywords. The conference main working language is English, but
we admit French or German proposals in exceptional, justified cases.B
Please submit your proposals to:B [email protected] until
31stB October, 2013.B
Conference Registration fees:B 120 Euros (MA and PhD Students) and 150 Euros
(Regular) open until 31stB March, 2014 (from November 2013 on). Authors of
some selected papers will be invited after the Conference to participate in a
book to be published byB CFUL, together with the keynote speakers.B More
information will be given during the conference.B
The Conference Directors:B
JosC) Manuel Martins and Christine Reeh
The Organizing Committee:B
Filipa Afonso, Isabel Machado, Claudio Rozzoni, Teresa Teixeira, and Susana
Viegas.
For general enquiries please contact: [email protected]
Or visit the Conferencebs website:
https://sites.google.com/site/philosophyandfilmlisbon2014
Susana Viegas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem
IFL B B AIM B B Cinema B B B Aniki B B CVDeGC3is
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