FILM-PHILOSOPHY:
PROSPECTS, DIRECTIONS AND NEW PERSPECTIVES
January 5-7, 2016
Film and Television Department
Tel Aviv University
Abstract deadline: August 1, 2015
Much has been learned from, and many interesting avenues for rethinking the interconnections between and among film studies and philosophy have been opened by, the burst of interest in “film-philosophy” over the past two decades. Calling upon philosophical and critical resources culled from both disciplines, this vibrant and still-emerging field presents an agenda for the kind of work for which we hope to provide a platform here: research that combines a careful and astute critique of objects of profound aesthetic appreciation with a rich and disciplined application of the methods of philosophical argumentation. We aim to expand this body of work by bringing together leading and emerging scholars and filmmakers to investigate together the significance of the objective phenomenon of the moving image and its subjective experience in order that we might enhance ongoing dialogues both within film studies and philosophical aesthetics individually and also between these discourses.… read more. “Call: Film-Philosophy: Prospects, Directions and New Perspectives”