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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY AND FILM Thinking Reality and Time through Film ………………………………………………………………………….………….. …………………………………………………………………………….………….. 1 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY AND FILM Thinking Reality and Time through Film ………………………………………………………………………….………….. Thinking Reality and Time through Film Proceedings of the International Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film: PROGRAMME OVERVIEWS ABSTRACTS CV’S CONTACTS Edited by Susana Viegas …………………………………………………………………………….………….. 2 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY AND FILM Thinking Reality and Time through Film ………………………………………………………………………….………….. Thinking Reality and Time through Film Proceedings of the International Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film - 6-10 May of 2014 Conference Directors Christine Reeh José Manuel Martins Pedro Calafate Scientific Committee Christine Reeh Claudio Rozzoni José Manuel Martins Maria Teresa Teixeira Susana Viegas Toni Hildebrandt Organizing Comittee Ângela Marques Carla Simões Filipa Afonso Filipa Seabra Filipe Pinto Isabel Machado Joana Ferreira Held at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, National Library, Portuguese Film Museum and the Goethe-Institut Lissabon. Organized by the Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa in collaboration with C.R.I.M. Productions, and the Goethe Institut Lissabon. Sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. …………………………………………………………………………….………….. 3 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY AND FILM Thinking Reality and Time through Film ………………………………………………………………………….………….. CONTENTS WELCOME TO LISBON FOR THINKING! 13 THINKING REALITY AND TIME THROUGH FILM 14 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW 15 FILM SCREENINGS 17 PLENARY SESSIONS (OVERVIEW LIST) 21 PLENARY SESSION # 1 BEING-IN-FILM 23 A Multimodal Theory of Film Experience, by Colin McGinn 23 Cinematographic Narrative and Personal Identity, by Carlos João Correia 24 On the rise of solaristic philosophy, by Christine Reeh 25 PLENARY SESSION # 2 OTHER SPACES 26 The Limit of the Frame, by Angela Schanelec 26 Reality as uncertainty, by Ulla von Brandenburg 27 PLENARY SESSION # 3 FROM PLATO'S CAVE TO FUTURE GAMES 28 In reality: the ultimate cinematic quest, by José Manuel Martins 28 Where's the rewind button on the BETAMIX of life? Cruelty as transgression and virtualization in Michael Haneke’s Funny Games, by Mirjam Schaub 29 The Future is Now: Temporality of the Neuro-Image, by Patricia Pisters 30 …………………………………………………………………………….………….. 4 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY AND FILM Thinking Reality and Time through Film ………………………………………………………………………….………….. PLENARY SESSION # 4 PHILOSOPHIES OF FILM 31 Movie-Made Philosophy: On the Possibility of Doing Philosophy by Means of the Moving Image, by Noël Carroll 31 Aesthetic-Philosophical Realism: How Intuition Matters for Ontology and Cinema, by Josef Früchtl 32 PLENARY SESSION # 5 PHILOSOPHY IN MEDIAL FORM 34 A trialogue between Peter Sloterdijk, Andrei Ujica and Peter Weibel - with screenings of works by the authors 34 PLENARY SESSION # 6 THE CINEMA OF VÍCTOR ERICE 36 Green leaves, green sorrows, by Maria Filomena Molder 36 PLENARY SESSION # 7 FILM AND THE ANGEL OF HISTORY 38 Microscope of Time, by Susana de Sousa Dias 38 Mask, by Christoph Korn and Cristina Beckert 39 PARALLEL THEMATIC SESSIONS 41 Group 1 - Film and Time: Filmmakers of the Time-Image 42 Group 2 - Ontology of the Moving Image 42 Group 3 - Spectatorship and Cinephilia 42 Group 4 - Limits of Film: Infinity, Death, Nothing and Reality 42 Group 5 - Accessing the Real through Film 43 Group 6 - Effects of Reality: Realism and Film 43 Group 1 - Film and Time: Filmmakers of the Time-Image 44 A Moving Stillness – Temporal Negotiation in Dominique Cabrera’s First Person Documentaries, by Julia Dobson 45 Still Time and Moving Reality – Differences in Time Between Photography and Film, by Katri Lassila 46 Filming the Present in the Future Tense: Revealing the Open Spaces of “Reality” through Profondeur de Champ in Jean Renoir's Pre-War Realism, by Barry Nevin 47 Film, thinking, philosophy, by Carlos Melo Ferreira 48 Re-conceiving the Chronotope: Bakhtin and Shakespeare-inflected Films, by Keith Harrison 49 This is the End? Time and Matter in Bill Morrison’s Decasia, by Bernd Herzogenrath 50 …………………………………………………………………………….………….. 5 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY AND FILM Thinking Reality and Time through Film ………………………………………………………………………….………….. Time, Figure and Reality of Early Animation Before 1930, by Xiaoxian Ye 51 Perception of the real-time narrative, Alaina Schempp 52 Perceiving Simultaneity in Succession: The Representation of Time in Parallel Editing, by Teresa Pedro 53 In Reality, We Are Not at Home: Immemorial Time in Cinemas of Migration, by Suzanne Barnard 54 Colliding temporalities in Henri-François Imbert’s film “No pasarán, album souvenir”, by Veronika Schweigl 56 An Ark for Images, a Run for Memory, by Marcelo Felix and Isabel Machado 57 Silver Screening – the diffusion of worlding and film through age(ing) and time, by Lena Eckert and Silke Martin 58 The Integrity of Gesture in Steve McQueen's Films, by Susana Viegas 59 Cinematic Time and Power: the role of attention economy in control societies, by Claudio Celis 60 Webcam Film Making - Algorithmic Cinematic Chronotopes, by Paula Albuquerque 61 Lyric Time and Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry (2010), by Steve Choe 62 Thinking technology in time: process-time and product-time in technological anime, by Alba G. Torrents and Andreu Ballús 63 From the Neuro-Image to the Image of Time in Contemporary Cinema, by Fabio Tonion 64 The Angel's Third Wing: Duration in Theo Angelopoulos' The Dust of Time, by Evy Varsamopoulou 65 “A sextet for overlapping soloists” – Temporality in Cloud Atlas, by Sonia Front 66 Survirvors, Memories and the Time-Image in Hungarian Documentaries, by Zsolt Győri 67 Touching the past: Watching film as a history- and memory-making experience, by Victoria Grace Walden 68 The ritornellos of listening and the cinematographic song, by Rodrigo Fonseca e Rodrigues 69 The Regenerative Cinematic Surface: Contractions, Expansions and Migrations in “The Aleph” and “Sans Soleil”, by Miguel Duarte 70 A decisive frame; any frame: the representation of time through old and new media, by Nuno Aníbal Figueiredo 71 The experience of time and temporality on Lo Sguardo di Michelangelo, by Carlos Vara Sánchez 72 ‘Contemplative Cinema’ and the Paradox of Cinematic Presence, by Gawan Fagard 73 …………………………………………………………………………….………….. 6 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY AND FILM Thinking Reality and Time through Film ………………………………………………………………………….………….. Odysseus – Lumière – Deleuze: ‘Several Times in Their Impure State’, by Ulrich Meurer and Maria Oikonomou 74 The Eternal Present of Cinema, by Enrico Terrone 75 Tuning our timing: Time distortions in cinema and emotions, by Dina Mendonça 76 Tragedy’s 24 hours and the movies’ fast pace, by Joana de Mello 77 Group 2 - Ontology of the Moving Image 78 Cinema and the Myth of Icarus: the World and its Image in André Bazin, by Blandine Joret 79 A World We Have Forgotten How to Love: Bazanian Ethics and Cinematic Ontology, by Katherine Rennebohm 80 Bazin, Style, and Digitization: Ontology, Epistemology, and the New Myth of Total Cinema, by Leighton Grist 81 Thinking repetition through film, by Katharina Wloszcynska 82 Image as Experience, by Ronald Rose-Antoinette 83 The Image of Temporality, by Maria-Teresa Teixeira 85 Vision of absence and time’s discontinuity in Bazin’s thought, by Michele Bertolini 86 A Reinterpretation of Bazin’s Ontology: Where Indexicality and Transparency Fall Short, by Mario Slugan 87 American Avant-Garde Film As Philosophy: A Poethics Beyond the Medium, by Rebecca A. Sheehan 88 A Double Withdrawal: On Distance, Absence and Dark Matter in Paulo Lisboa’s Image-Making, by Marko Stamenkovic 89 Acessing modern Self through film, by Carla Milani Damião-Wall 90 Filmic Images and Reality: Peircian Indexicality and the Technological In- 91 between, by James Verdon Time for the Ethical? Emmanuel Levinas, José Luis Guerín and Documentary Film, by Rhiannon Harries 92 Experiencing reality through the optical printer, by Amanda Egbe 93 The motion image as the locum tenens of the film - an ontological enquiry on the absence of the natural rules, by Bogdan Nita 94 Stanley Cavell and Ukiyo-e: rediscovering reality through the cinema, by Veronica Cibotaru 95 Essay as film: Julio Bressane’s “Brás Cubas”, by Patrick Pessoa 96 …………………………………………………………………………….………….. 7 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY AND FILM Thinking Reality and Time through Film ………………………………………………………………………….………….. Body as Corporeal Room-for-play. Rethinking Chinese Martial-arts Film through Benjamin’s Theory of Mimesis and Film, by Qianfan Zhao 97 Little Red Riding Hood. Sacrifice in Folk Tales and Cinema: a case study, by Emanuele Antonelli 98 Pina 3D and the Sensible Power of Movies, by Vladimir Vieira 99 Dislocation and cinema, by Wissam Mouawad 100 “Don’t Turn the Projector Off!” The Ontology of Cinematic Endings, by Shai Biderman 101 F for Fake: At odds with a set of moral opinions, by Ana Falcato 103 Accessing the Feminine in Blue Jasmine, by Nicole A. Hall 104 Conflict of Aesthetic/Aesthetics of Conflict: Testimony as History in Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir and Rithy Panh’sThe Missing Picture, by Aparna Shukla 105 Ontological Properties of the Moving Image: Modifying the Fourth or adding a Sixth Condition, by Lenhardt Stevens 106 “Film Thinks!” What about Dreams? A Reading of Daniel Frampton’s Filmosophy, by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 107