The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Christine Greiner

November’s Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar will be led by Christine Greiner (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo), who will talk about the “Death-Image: modes of existence”. The session will be held on November 27, 2025, at 17:00 WET, online, via Microsoft Teams. To receive information about joining the meeting online, it’s mandatory to register in advance here.

Abstract

Based on Vinciane Despret’s studies on the philosopher Étienne Souriau and the urgency of establishing modes of existence for the dead (and for death), we propose a conversation about the Japanese cinema of the 1960s, especially the short-films inspired by the Butoh thought of Tatsumi Hijikata: as was the case of Navel and A-Bomb by Eikoh Hosoe and War Games by Donald Richie.

Bio

Christine Greiner is a writer, curator and chair of the Department of Art at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. She is the author of books and articles on Performing Arts, Japanese Culture and Philosophy of the Body, including The Body, clues for indisciplinary studies (2005), The Body in Crisis, new pathways and the short-circuit in representation (2010 and 2021 English Translation), Readings of the Body in Japan (2015), Fabulations of the Japanese Body (2017), and Crip Bodies, strangeness to continue living (2023).  Curated by her, these exhibitions stand out: Tokyogaqui — Imaginary Japan; Revolt of the flesh and Bodies of Images: Eikoh Hosoe; and Poetic Intoxications of the flesh, about Gal Oppido’s work.