PROGRAMME & ABSTRACTS 1 The Second Film-Philosophy Conference, July 16-18, University of Dundee Programme Session/ Lecture Theatre 3 2F11 2F13 2F14 2F15 2F02 Time Thursday July 16 2-2.30pm Opening remarks 2.30-4pm Rancière’s Film Panel: Ruiz as Cine Documentary Cinema Ethics & Film I Panel: A Deleuzian Film and Dance Philosophy Thinker: The Chair: Greg Tuck Chair: Andrew Journey: The Body and Chair: Birgit Leitner Chair: John Multiple Sides of an McGettigan Space in Motion McSweeney Anomalous Project 1. Steven Eastwood Chair: Katre Pärn 1.Barbara M. Chair: Gabri Ródenas Colliding the fictional and 1. Myung-Hye Chun Kennedy 1. Emiliano Battista the actual in the Bosnian Theology of Colour 1. Yun Hua Chen Towards an Marker’s Tomb: 1. Garin Dowd Valley of the Pyramids between Moral Law The In-between Spaces aesthetics of Rancière on Cinema’s Re-Ruiz: Returns, and Love: Reflections in Code Unknown emergence: the Historical Powers Reverberations, 2. Antony Fredriksson on Krzysztof participatory and Revenants, Documentary film beyond Kieslowski’s Three 2. David Fleming the chaos of the 2. Kristian Moen Remembrance intention and re- Colours: Red Black hole becomings: operatic Jacques Rancière, presentation: Trinh T. The insomniac body Emile Vuillermoz and 2.Michael Goddard Minh-ha and the 2.Phillipp inside a time crystal 2. Beatriz the Symbolist ‘From Chile to aesthetics of materiality Schmerheim Cantinho Sentence-Image Klossowski’: The Relocating the good 3. Serazer Pekerman A Choreographic Unknown Ruiz of the 3. Neli Dobreva life. Virtue ethics in The Spiritual Passage as perspective on 3. Andrew Burke 1970s Shock and Awe: A virtual film worlds Becoming-Imperceptible: movement in Hearing Loss: Voice, dehumanising 9/11 Takva [a man’s fear of Cinema Memory, 3. Alejandra documentary god] Documentary Rodríguez-Remedi Ruizian Ruptures of the Mainstream: Chilean Television and British Film Studies 4-4.30pm Coffee 4.30-6pm Plenary Session Chair: David Sorfa Caroline Bainbridge Gestures in the Feminine: Toward an Irigarayan Cinematics Friday Lecture July Theatre 3 2F11 2F13 2F14 2F15 2F02 17 9.30- Flesh and Ontology and the The Nature of Film- Deleuzian Feminism and Film 11.00 Embodiment Moving Image Philosophy I Intersections Chair: Barbara Muriel Chair: John Chair: Gabri Ródenas Chair: Andrew McGettigan Chair: Melinda Szaloky Kennedy McSweeney 1.Meghan Sutherland 1.Felicity Colman 1.Susana Duarte 1.Samantha Holland 1. Patricia Castello- Society, the Spectacle, What is film-philosophy? Marguerite Duras’s Beauvoir’s Branco and the Spectacular cinema of dis- Phenomenology and Film as embodied or 2.Craig Fox figuration. action movies: Feminist disembodied 2.Brian Price Mamet’s Oleanna, Thoughts on anxious experience? Being-With-Images Wittgenstein, and Film as 2.Hamish Ford Masculinity and Overcoming Dualism: Philosophy Devastating Subjectivity in Films early abstract temporality, ‘becoming’ Starring Jean-Claude cinematographic 3. Andrée Lafontaine and the post-human: Van Damme experiences as ‘pure Contemporary American Challenging Deleuze sensation’ Film Philosophy: through Antonioni’s 2. Birgit Maria Leitner Disciplining the study of L’eclisse Cixous, Lacan and the 2.Greg Tuck film current question “how to Love, Death and get in touch with the Flesh: Ontological feminist side of film antinomies in writing?” Tuskamoto Shinya's Vital 3.Dylan Trigg The Return of the New Flesh: David Cronenberg and Body Memory 11.00- Coffee 11.30 11.30- Plenary Session 1pm Chair: Richard Stamp Martin McQuillan Rushes 1.00- Lunch (provided) 2.00 Friday Film Presentations Michael Haneke Film Aesthetics Badiou I Ethics and Film II Film Realism 2.00- Chair: Craig Smith Chair: Andrew Chair: Michael Goddard Chair: Anthony Paul Chair: Catherine Chair: Michael 3.30 McGettigan Smith Constable Tawa 1. Joanna 1.Kieran Cashell Callaghan 1.Emily McMehen Tractarian Montage and 1.Daniel Fairfax 1.Claudia Tai 1.Laura McMahon Aesthetic translation, Michael Haneke and the Double-Aspect Seeing: Parallels between the A Long Journey to Self- Realism, presence, or how I tried to make Meta-Antagonist The Aesthetic and post-68 films of Jean- Redemption in The contact: Jean-Luc a film about Plato’s Epistemic Dimensions of Luc Godard and the Memory Keeper’s Nancy on cinema world of forms 2.Dara Waldron Derek Jarman’s early philosophy of Daughter and Atonement Cracks in the Gaze: Re- Wittgenstein Alain Badiou 2.Cato Wittusen 2. Martin Wyllie evaluating Terror and its 2. Nancy Davies Realism and Basket Case (short Origins in Michael 2. Thierry Jutel 2.John Mullarkey Value Theory and Narrating in Depth film) Haneke's Caché The Exception of Cinema: Badiou’s Inessential Science Fiction Aesthetics and Cultural Cinema 3. Susanne Policy 3. Richard T. Schmetkamp 3.Thomas Lynch McClelland Violence and the 3.Trevor Mowchun Thinking Cinema: Depictions of Revenge in Responsibility of the At the Drawing Board of Badiou, Greenaway, Current Popular Cinema Audience in Michael the World: Reading the and Mullarkey Haneke`s Ethical Filmmaking of Victor Cinema Erice's Dream of Light 3.30- Coffee 4.00 4.00- Plenary session 6.00 Chair: John Mullarkey Alain Badiou What is a Platonist Movie? 7.30pm Conference Dinner Hilton Hotel, Dundee Sat July Lecture Theatre 2F11 2F13 2F14 2F15 2F02 3 18 9.30- Badiou II Philosophical Subjectivity/Images Animation/Colour Psycho-Analysis I Chris Marker 11.00 Chair: Anthony Paul Auteurs I Chair: Edward Branigan Chair: Andrew Chair: Barbara Muriel Chair: Michael Smith Chair: Melinda McGettigan Kennedy Tawa Szaloky 1.Dennis Rothermel 1.John McSweeney Competitive Philosophical 1. Liz Watkins 1. Ben Tyrer 1.Alan Robinson Aesthetics or 1. John Lynch Approaches to Cinema Glare and Erosion: Out of the Past: Noir Camera Obscura: Inaesthetics? Hunger – Passion of Subjectivity Disorder in Narrative Temporality and Thinking Darkness Approaching the the Militant and the Uncertainty of Symbolic Structure in Sans Soleil Political in Godard’s 2.Catherine Constable the Image Notre Musique 2.William Coker Images of 2.Greg Singh 2. Marcel Bela Tarr’s film Theorizing/Theorizing 2.Richard Stamp Why should a Jungian Swiboda 2. Adity Singh Werckmeister Images Animation in (and out film theorist learn to Audio-Visual Godard’s La chinoise Harmonies and the of) philosophy and film count to four? Memories: The and the apprenticeship problem of allegory 3. Kristóf Nyíri studies Affective of hopefulness (without Image and Word: 3. Robert Lapsley Mnemotechnics of hope) Gombrich's Relevance to Cinema and Parallax: Chris Marker’s La the Philosophy of Film Psychoanalytic Film Jetée 3.Maria Poulaki Criticism after Zizek The Badiouian subject trapped in Gomorrah: Undecidability and choice in post-reflexive cinema 11.00- Coffee 11.30 11.30- Plenary Session 1.00 Chair: John Mullarkey Edward Branigan Of Theory Talk 1.00- Lunch (provided) 2.00 Sat July 18 Lecture Theatre 3 2F11 2F13 2F14 2F15 2F02 2.00- Phenomenology/Film Philosophical Political Film The Nature of Film- Space and Time 3.30 Experience Auteurs II Chair: Nancy Davies Philosophy II Chair: Liz Watkins Chair: Samantha Chair: Birgit Leitner Chair: Edward Holland 1.John Adams Branigan 1. Charalambos 1. Gabri Ródenas High Seriousness and Low Charalambous 1. Adriano D’Aloia Jim Jarmusch: From Culture: Allan Bloom and 1.Andrew McGettigan Cinema as index of The Other side of the the American to the Saul Bellow on Film What no Art? motion: the open-image film: Edith Stein’s theory Worldwide Insomnia Reflections on the Idea and perception in of empathy as a filmic 2.Richard Rushton of Film as Philosophy continuous spaces experience theory 2. Adeline Mannarini Imagining another world: Memory - Repetition - cinematic suture and 2. Basilis Kroustalis 2. Aysegul Sentug 2.Corin Depper Return: temporal political philosophy Film as Thought Before the Rain: Le Mépris and the divergence in Experiment: A Happy- Exploration of philosophy Origin of the Filmwork: Mulholland Drive and 3. Daniel White go-lucky Case? of time in film Godard contra Lost Highway Nietzsche, Wagner, Heidegger Riefenstahl, von Baky, 3.Amanda 3.Michael Tawa 3. Ozge Ozduzen Chaplin: Aesthetics, Montgomery The time of the shot: 3. David Yacavone Bergsonalizing Politics, and Play in Film as Philosophy: Rhythm and gaze in Cinematic Immersion Persona Postmodern Culture Between Saying and Jean-Luc Godard’s and Aesthetic Showing? Éloge de l ’Amour and Experience Werner Herzog’s Fata Morgana 3.30- Coffee 4.00 4.00- Film Critique/Critique Psycho-Analysis II Imperceptibles (Silence, Film Epistemology Alien Subjects and 5.30 of Film Chair: Liz Watkins Flicker, Relationality) Chair: Samantha Whole Films Chair: Nancy Davies Chair: Richard Stamp Holland Chair: John Mullarkey 1. Jose Manuel 1. André Dias Martins 1. Craig Smith 1.Damien Cox 1. Tolulope Onabolu On (the dangers of) Kurosawa’s dream Interface: The Move to The Epistemological Demons, Decepticons actively forgetting (the “Crows” as a Global Participation Lab: Total Recall and and Devils: Megatron, tradition of) film criticism philosophical- the refutation of Aliens and Predators psychoanalytical 2. Shannon Foskett skepticism 2.Elena Oxman interpretation of Van Imperceptible Cinema: 2. David Sorfa Thinking Images: Jean Gogh’s last painting Spacetime Quanta and 2. Katre Pärn The (W)hole of Film Epstein’s (Anti-) Flicker Ontologies From point of Philosophical Cinema 2. Irene Hee-Seung perception to point of Lee 3. David Martin-Jones cognition: audiovisual 3.Anthony Paul Smith The Real of a text: A Attraction-image: Early subjectivity in cinema Shooting