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FILM AND DEATH – Film-Philosophy as a Meditation on Death

FILM AND DEATH has three key aims: 1) to demonstrate that film-philosophy contains significant philosophical insights; 2) to show that such insights are best understood by means of film’s novel ways of thinking of time, finitude, and death; and 3) to argue that film’s thinking about finite time gives new meaning to philosophy’s traditional role as a meditation on death.

Principal Investigator
Researchers
Christine Reeh-Peters
Consultants
Bernd Herzogenrath
Catherine Wheatley
Enrico Terrone
James Williams
Thomas E. Wartenberg
Funding Agency
HORIZON-ERC
Reference
101088956
Start Date
01/06/2023
Duration
60 months
Budget
1 703 834,00€
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Events
CineLab • Reading Group
09/06/2025
Reading Group on Catherine Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity”
CineLab • Seminar
28/05/2025
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Muhammad Haris
Natural Language Generation and the Script for a Film on Genocide
CineLab • Reading Group
26/05/2025
Reading Group on Catherine Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity”
CineLab • Reading Group
12/05/2025
Reading Group on Catherine Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity”
CineLab • Reading Group
28/04/2025
Reading Group on Catherine Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity”
CineLab • Seminar
23/04/2025
David H. Fleming
Danse Macabre: Of the Dying and Death of Philosophers on Film [… And Film as an (archival) afterlife of philosophy]
CineLab • Seminar
16/04/2025
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Federico Rossin
How experimental cinema deals with death
CineLab • Reading Group
14/04/2025
Reading Group on Catherine Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity”
CineLab • Reading Group
31/03/2025
Reading Group on Catherine Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity”
CineLab • Seminar
26/03/2025
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Marc Cerisuelo
Psychopomp fictions
CineLab • Seminar
19/03/2025
Pedro Inock
Photon Engraving Machines: The zero image limit and beyond (Anti-Image)
CineLab • Talk
06/03/2025
On Gold and Ashes: Representing Trauma and...
Salomé Lamas
CineLab • Workshop
27/02/2025–28/02/2025
The Anime Philosophy Lab
Thomas Lamarre
CineLab • Seminar
19/02/2025
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Outi Hakola
Filming the Moment of Death
CineLab • Seminar
29/01/2025
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Cristóbal Escobar
A Classic Never Dies: On Cinematic Intensity and the Contemporary
CineLab • Talk
21/01/2025
Book discussion: Unconscious/Television
With Lucas Ferraço Nassif & Becoming Press
CineLab • Seminar
04/12/2024
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Anna Magdalena Elsner
Documenting Dying or Capturing Care? The Afterlives of Palliative Care in French End-of-Life Documentaries
CultureLab • CineLab • International Conference
25/11/2024–27/11/2024
Pessimism: Problematising the Value of Life
CineLab • Seminar
20/11/2024
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Lucas Ferraço Nassif
Where the Desertshore Was, There Should Be the Crypt
CineLab • Seminar
30/10/2024
Ingrid Rodrigues Gonçalves
Grafias documentais autobiográficas e audiovisualização da vida: articulações entre o ‘eu’ e o ‘nós’ para pensar a educação
CineLab • Seminar
18/09/2024
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Christine Reeh-Peters
Film Specters — Towards an Ethics of Film and Death
CineLab • Seminar
04/07/2024
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Catherine Wheatley
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow: film, mourning, and the passing of the world
CineLab • Outlab • CultureLab • International Conference
01/07/2024–03/07/2024
Film-Philosophy Conference 2024
CineLab • Seminar
17/06/2024
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Marco Grosoli
Looking Through the Eyes of Those Who Are No Longer: Death and Cultural Politics in 'Leonora addio' (Paolo Taviani, 2022)
CineLab • Seminar
15/05/2024
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Bernd Herzogenrath
The Way of All Flesh: Decasia and Death of|as Film
CineLab • Seminar
24/04/2024
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Lucy Bolton
The desecration of the beautiful star: death and the female biopic
CineLab • Workshop
09/03/2024
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Thomas Lamarre
Half Life: Radiation and Animation
CineLab • Reading Group
04/03/2024
Reading group on The Anime Machine, by...
CineLab • Reading Group
26/02/2024
Reading group on The Anime Machine, by...
CineLab • Reading Group
19/02/2024
Reading group on The Anime Machine, by...
CineLab • Seminar
14/02/2024
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: David Ferragut
Matter and Mind. On philosophy in Early Cinema
CineLab • Seminar
24/01/2024
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Thomas E. Wartenberg
Thoughtful Cinema: Illustrating Philosophy Through Film
CineLab • Seminar
11/12/2023
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Jakob A. Nilsson
Cinecepts: On the Articulation of Philosophical Concepts Through Audiovisual Media
CineLab • Seminar
22/11/2023
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Robert Sinnerbrink
What is a Philosophical Reading of Film? On Film-Philosophy and Philosophical Film Criticism
CineLab • Lecture
20/11/2023
Breathing and The Unconscious
Jamieson Webster
CineLab • Reading Group
12/10/2023
Reading group on Žižek’s Lacrimae Rerum
CineLab • Reading Group
07/09/2023
Reading group on Žižek’s Lacrimae Rerum
CineLab • Reading Group
25/07/2023
Reading group on Žižek’s Lacrimae Rerum
CineLab • Reading Group
29/06/2023
Reading group on Žižek’s Lacrimae Rerum
News
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CineLab
28/02/2025
Death in the Eyes
Thinking and Representing Human Disappearance in Cinema
CineLab
12/02/2025
Death-Images: Revisiting Deleuze’s Time-Image in...
Call for papers
CineLab
02/01/2025
Swan Songs
Call for papers
CineLab
02/01/2025
Unconscious/Television
Launch of Lucas Ferraço Nassif's book at Linha de Sombra bookstore
CineLab
12/11/2024
Unconscious/Television is available for pre-order
New book by Lucas Ferraço Nassif
CineLab
07/10/2024
Catherine Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity”
Reading group
CineLab
05/06/2024
AIM Award for Best Monograph
Missing Links: A Book in Ten Sessions, by Lucas Ferraço Nassif
CineLab
17/04/2024
CINEMA 16: The Anime Philosophy
Call for abstracts
CultureLab  CineLab
02/04/2024
Pessimism: Problematising the Value of...
Call for abstracts
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CineLab
18/12/2023
Film-Philosophy Conference 2024
Call for abstracts
CineLab
05/09/2023
Selection of three Postdoctoral Researchers
Call open until September 21, 2023
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Publications
2025
CineLab • books
Unconscious/Television
Unconscious/Television
Lucas Ferraço Nassif
Berlin: Becoming Press.
2024
CineLab • Articles in peer-reviewed journals
ifilnova open acess
Death Images in Michael Haneke’s Films
Death Images in Michael Haneke’s Films
Susana Viegas
Philosophies, 9(5), 155.
2023
CineLab • Articles in peer-reviewed journals
ifilnova open acess
Introduction to Voragine’s Special Dossier “Death, from Painting to Film: Philosophical Conversations”
Introduction to Voragine’s Special Dossier “Death, from Painting to Film: Philosophical Conversations”
Susana Viegas
Vorágine Revista Interdisciplinaria de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, 5(9), 5-9.
2023
CineLab • books
ifilnova open acess
Missing Links: A Book in Ten Sessions
Missing Links: A Book in Ten Sessions
Lucas Ferraço Nassif
London: Barakunan.
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