FILM AND DEATH
@filmdeath.bsky.social
ERC CoG project defends the hypothesis that to film-philosophize is to learn to die. PI Susana Viegas, a researcher at NOVA FCSH.
More info: https://filmdeath.fcsh.unl.pt/
More info: https://filmdeath.fcsh.unl.pt/
📅 Join us on 3 FEB 18:00 for a virtual roundtable on Thomas Wartenberg's last book, "Thoughtful Cinema"!
🌐 The author will be present and you can access an excerpt of the book through the registration link: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e460e4...
All are welcome!
🌐 The author will be present and you can access an excerpt of the book through the registration link: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e460e4...
All are welcome!
January 7, 2026 at 1:07 PM
📅 Join us on 3 FEB 18:00 for a virtual roundtable on Thomas Wartenberg's last book, "Thoughtful Cinema"!
🌐 The author will be present and you can access an excerpt of the book through the registration link: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e460e4...
All are welcome!
🌐 The author will be present and you can access an excerpt of the book through the registration link: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e460e4...
All are welcome!
🖌️ There's yet a new OA article from Patrícia Castello Branco on our Art's Special Issue on Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films!
🌐 Read "The Anti-Testament of Ozu Time, Finitude and Repetition in An Autumn Afternoon" here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14...
🌐 Read "The Anti-Testament of Ozu Time, Finitude and Repetition in An Autumn Afternoon" here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14...
www.mdpi.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🖌️ There's yet a new OA article from Patrícia Castello Branco on our Art's Special Issue on Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films!
🌐 Read "The Anti-Testament of Ozu Time, Finitude and Repetition in An Autumn Afternoon" here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14...
🌐 Read "The Anti-Testament of Ozu Time, Finitude and Repetition in An Autumn Afternoon" here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14...
📚 We are pleased to announce the publication of a new open-access article: “A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) as the Spiritual Swan Song of Stanley Kubrick” by Alexandre Nascimento Braga Teixeira!
📌 Deadline for submissions: 1 April 2026!
Full article: www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14...
📌 Deadline for submissions: 1 April 2026!
Full article: www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14...
www.mdpi.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
📚 We are pleased to announce the publication of a new open-access article: “A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) as the Spiritual Swan Song of Stanley Kubrick” by Alexandre Nascimento Braga Teixeira!
📌 Deadline for submissions: 1 April 2026!
Full article: www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14...
📌 Deadline for submissions: 1 April 2026!
Full article: www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14...
📅 November 26 3-6PM, join us at NOVA FCSH (Berna Campus, A206) for a presentation by three members of Salón de Cines Múltiples (SACIMU): Bruno Varela, Marcela Cuevas and Byron Davies!
☠️ They will talk to us about "Nahual Cinema and The Living Idol (Albert Lewin and René Cardona, 1957)"
☠️ They will talk to us about "Nahual Cinema and The Living Idol (Albert Lewin and René Cardona, 1957)"
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
📅 November 26 3-6PM, join us at NOVA FCSH (Berna Campus, A206) for a presentation by three members of Salón de Cines Múltiples (SACIMU): Bruno Varela, Marcela Cuevas and Byron Davies!
☠️ They will talk to us about "Nahual Cinema and The Living Idol (Albert Lewin and René Cardona, 1957)"
☠️ They will talk to us about "Nahual Cinema and The Living Idol (Albert Lewin and René Cardona, 1957)"
💫 Join Christine Greiner (PUC-SP) on November 27 5PM for the next Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar: "Death-Image: Modes of Existence".
🏠 The event will be held online, via Teams
+ info and registration link on our website (link in bio)
🏠 The event will be held online, via Teams
+ info and registration link on our website (link in bio)
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
💫 Join Christine Greiner (PUC-SP) on November 27 5PM for the next Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar: "Death-Image: Modes of Existence".
🏠 The event will be held online, via Teams
+ info and registration link on our website (link in bio)
🏠 The event will be held online, via Teams
+ info and registration link on our website (link in bio)
🎥 Recordings from some of our activities are now available on our website, including:
📖 Our reading group on Catherine Malabou’s Destructive Plasticity
🎬 Our reading group on Slavoj Žižek’s Lacrimae Rerum
💡 Our seminars with Salomé Lamas and Lucas Ferraço Nassif
+ filmdeath.fcsh.unl.pt/videos/
📖 Our reading group on Catherine Malabou’s Destructive Plasticity
🎬 Our reading group on Slavoj Žižek’s Lacrimae Rerum
💡 Our seminars with Salomé Lamas and Lucas Ferraço Nassif
+ filmdeath.fcsh.unl.pt/videos/
VIDEOS – Film and Death
filmdeath.fcsh.unl.pt
October 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🎥 Recordings from some of our activities are now available on our website, including:
📖 Our reading group on Catherine Malabou’s Destructive Plasticity
🎬 Our reading group on Slavoj Žižek’s Lacrimae Rerum
💡 Our seminars with Salomé Lamas and Lucas Ferraço Nassif
+ filmdeath.fcsh.unl.pt/videos/
📖 Our reading group on Catherine Malabou’s Destructive Plasticity
🎬 Our reading group on Slavoj Žižek’s Lacrimae Rerum
💡 Our seminars with Salomé Lamas and Lucas Ferraço Nassif
+ filmdeath.fcsh.unl.pt/videos/
🤖 New book chapter by Susana Viegas!
☠️ "On Androids, Mortality, and Death-Images: Blade Runner and Westworld" is published in SecondDeath: Experiences of Death Across Technologies, edited by Alger Sans Pinillos, Vicent Costa, and Jordi Vallverdú.
+ info on our website (link in bio)
☠️ "On Androids, Mortality, and Death-Images: Blade Runner and Westworld" is published in SecondDeath: Experiences of Death Across Technologies, edited by Alger Sans Pinillos, Vicent Costa, and Jordi Vallverdú.
+ info on our website (link in bio)
October 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🤖 New book chapter by Susana Viegas!
☠️ "On Androids, Mortality, and Death-Images: Blade Runner and Westworld" is published in SecondDeath: Experiences of Death Across Technologies, edited by Alger Sans Pinillos, Vicent Costa, and Jordi Vallverdú.
+ info on our website (link in bio)
☠️ "On Androids, Mortality, and Death-Images: Blade Runner and Westworld" is published in SecondDeath: Experiences of Death Across Technologies, edited by Alger Sans Pinillos, Vicent Costa, and Jordi Vallverdú.
+ info on our website (link in bio)
💫 Join Addison Ellis (American University of Cairo) and Byron Davies (University of Murcia) on October 29 3PM for the next Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar: "Cinema De Trop: Brakhage and Existentialism".
🏠 The event will be held at NOVA FCSH (room B607)
+ info on our website (link in bio)
🏠 The event will be held at NOVA FCSH (room B607)
+ info on our website (link in bio)
October 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
💫 Join Addison Ellis (American University of Cairo) and Byron Davies (University of Murcia) on October 29 3PM for the next Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar: "Cinema De Trop: Brakhage and Existentialism".
🏠 The event will be held at NOVA FCSH (room B607)
+ info on our website (link in bio)
🏠 The event will be held at NOVA FCSH (room B607)
+ info on our website (link in bio)
🚨 NEW DEADLINE! 🚨
We are happy to announce Arts is the new home for the Special Issue "Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films", with a new deadline on top!
+ full call here: www.mdpi.com/journal/arts...
We are happy to announce Arts is the new home for the Special Issue "Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films", with a new deadline on top!
+ full call here: www.mdpi.com/journal/arts...
October 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
🚨 NEW DEADLINE! 🚨
We are happy to announce Arts is the new home for the Special Issue "Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films", with a new deadline on top!
+ full call here: www.mdpi.com/journal/arts...
We are happy to announce Arts is the new home for the Special Issue "Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films", with a new deadline on top!
+ full call here: www.mdpi.com/journal/arts...
💥🔊 NEW CALL FOR PAPERS 🔊💥
☠️ Death in the Eyes 2: Philosophical Perspectives on Film and Death
📍NOVA University Lisbon (May 28-29, 2026)
💫 Keynote speakers: Michele Aaron (University of Warwick) and Jean-Baptiste Thoret (Université de Poitiers)
+ info on our website (link in bio)
☠️ Death in the Eyes 2: Philosophical Perspectives on Film and Death
📍NOVA University Lisbon (May 28-29, 2026)
💫 Keynote speakers: Michele Aaron (University of Warwick) and Jean-Baptiste Thoret (Université de Poitiers)
+ info on our website (link in bio)
October 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
💥🔊 NEW CALL FOR PAPERS 🔊💥
☠️ Death in the Eyes 2: Philosophical Perspectives on Film and Death
📍NOVA University Lisbon (May 28-29, 2026)
💫 Keynote speakers: Michele Aaron (University of Warwick) and Jean-Baptiste Thoret (Université de Poitiers)
+ info on our website (link in bio)
☠️ Death in the Eyes 2: Philosophical Perspectives on Film and Death
📍NOVA University Lisbon (May 28-29, 2026)
💫 Keynote speakers: Michele Aaron (University of Warwick) and Jean-Baptiste Thoret (Université de Poitiers)
+ info on our website (link in bio)
🧟♂️ New article from Marco Grosoli is out now!
📖 Read "More Zombies than Zombies: Catherine Malabou’s 'New Wounded' and their Ethico-Political Implications, According to Victor Erice’s Cerrar los ojos" in Ocula (35) now.
www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-...
📖 Read "More Zombies than Zombies: Catherine Malabou’s 'New Wounded' and their Ethico-Political Implications, According to Victor Erice’s Cerrar los ojos" in Ocula (35) now.
www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-...
www.ocula.it
September 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🧟♂️ New article from Marco Grosoli is out now!
📖 Read "More Zombies than Zombies: Catherine Malabou’s 'New Wounded' and their Ethico-Political Implications, According to Victor Erice’s Cerrar los ojos" in Ocula (35) now.
www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-...
📖 Read "More Zombies than Zombies: Catherine Malabou’s 'New Wounded' and their Ethico-Political Implications, According to Victor Erice’s Cerrar los ojos" in Ocula (35) now.
www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-...
📖 A new open-access article by Marco Grosoli is out now, as part of the Special Issue Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films
🌐 "Wrapping Up “Through the Eyes of Those Who Are No Longer”: Paolo Taviani’s Leonora addio (2022)"
www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14...
🌐 "Wrapping Up “Through the Eyes of Those Who Are No Longer”: Paolo Taviani’s Leonora addio (2022)"
www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14...
www.mdpi.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
📖 A new open-access article by Marco Grosoli is out now, as part of the Special Issue Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films
🌐 "Wrapping Up “Through the Eyes of Those Who Are No Longer”: Paolo Taviani’s Leonora addio (2022)"
www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14...
🌐 "Wrapping Up “Through the Eyes of Those Who Are No Longer”: Paolo Taviani’s Leonora addio (2022)"
www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14...
📚 A new book chapter by Susana Viegas is out now!
Titled “Derrida on Cinema’s Spectral Images: Time, Repetition, and Belief”, this new article is published in Derrida and Film Studies, edited by Kamil Lipiński and Andrzej Marzec (Brill, 2025).
+ info on our website (link in bio)
Titled “Derrida on Cinema’s Spectral Images: Time, Repetition, and Belief”, this new article is published in Derrida and Film Studies, edited by Kamil Lipiński and Andrzej Marzec (Brill, 2025).
+ info on our website (link in bio)
September 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
📚 A new book chapter by Susana Viegas is out now!
Titled “Derrida on Cinema’s Spectral Images: Time, Repetition, and Belief”, this new article is published in Derrida and Film Studies, edited by Kamil Lipiński and Andrzej Marzec (Brill, 2025).
+ info on our website (link in bio)
Titled “Derrida on Cinema’s Spectral Images: Time, Repetition, and Belief”, this new article is published in Derrida and Film Studies, edited by Kamil Lipiński and Andrzej Marzec (Brill, 2025).
+ info on our website (link in bio)
✨ Join us and Seán Cubbit (University of Melbourne) on October 15 3PM for our Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar: "Immortal Cinema".
🌐 It's an hybrid event held at NOVA FCSH (B201) and via Microsoft Teams.
+ register on our website (link in bio)
🌐 It's an hybrid event held at NOVA FCSH (B201) and via Microsoft Teams.
+ register on our website (link in bio)
September 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
✨ Join us and Seán Cubbit (University of Melbourne) on October 15 3PM for our Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar: "Immortal Cinema".
🌐 It's an hybrid event held at NOVA FCSH (B201) and via Microsoft Teams.
+ register on our website (link in bio)
🌐 It's an hybrid event held at NOVA FCSH (B201) and via Microsoft Teams.
+ register on our website (link in bio)
📚Join us on September 25 6PM for a discussion of Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance, a new book by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky.
The author will be joined by Susana Viegas and Iracema Dulley at NOVA FCSH (Av. de Berna), Aud C1.
+ info on our website
The author will be joined by Susana Viegas and Iracema Dulley at NOVA FCSH (Av. de Berna), Aud C1.
+ info on our website
September 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
📚Join us on September 25 6PM for a discussion of Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance, a new book by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky.
The author will be joined by Susana Viegas and Iracema Dulley at NOVA FCSH (Av. de Berna), Aud C1.
+ info on our website
The author will be joined by Susana Viegas and Iracema Dulley at NOVA FCSH (Av. de Berna), Aud C1.
+ info on our website
💫 On Sep 18-19, the Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia will host a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Deleuze's The Time-Image.
Marco Grosoli will present a paper titled "On connait Lazarus. History, Death and Brain through Deleuze and Malabou".
+ full abstract on our website
Marco Grosoli will present a paper titled "On connait Lazarus. History, Death and Brain through Deleuze and Malabou".
+ full abstract on our website
September 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
💫 On Sep 18-19, the Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia will host a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Deleuze's The Time-Image.
Marco Grosoli will present a paper titled "On connait Lazarus. History, Death and Brain through Deleuze and Malabou".
+ full abstract on our website
Marco Grosoli will present a paper titled "On connait Lazarus. History, Death and Brain through Deleuze and Malabou".
+ full abstract on our website
Lucas Ferraço Nassif will be present at Πάμε Βενετία (pame venetia), celebrating Becoming Press' 10th publication.
He will be speaking at the Associazione Culturale Spiazzi (Venice), on Sep 11, with the presentation "Death-Images and Schizo-Cogitos", in the session Unconscious/Theorizing.
He will be speaking at the Associazione Culturale Spiazzi (Venice), on Sep 11, with the presentation "Death-Images and Schizo-Cogitos", in the session Unconscious/Theorizing.
August 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Lucas Ferraço Nassif will be present at Πάμε Βενετία (pame venetia), celebrating Becoming Press' 10th publication.
He will be speaking at the Associazione Culturale Spiazzi (Venice), on Sep 11, with the presentation "Death-Images and Schizo-Cogitos", in the session Unconscious/Theorizing.
He will be speaking at the Associazione Culturale Spiazzi (Venice), on Sep 11, with the presentation "Death-Images and Schizo-Cogitos", in the session Unconscious/Theorizing.
💫 Marco Grosoli will be at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, on August 20-22, for Frankfurt 2025: Borders / DIALECTICS / Civility!
📖 Marco Grosoli’s presentation is titled "Bordering Death. The Dialectics of Origin in Mysteries of Lisbon”.
📖 Marco Grosoli’s presentation is titled "Bordering Death. The Dialectics of Origin in Mysteries of Lisbon”.
August 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
💫 Marco Grosoli will be at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, on August 20-22, for Frankfurt 2025: Borders / DIALECTICS / Civility!
📖 Marco Grosoli’s presentation is titled "Bordering Death. The Dialectics of Origin in Mysteries of Lisbon”.
📖 Marco Grosoli’s presentation is titled "Bordering Death. The Dialectics of Origin in Mysteries of Lisbon”.
📖 Read Corey Cribb's response to our panel at #NECS2025, hosted by Lusófona University last June.
👉 Full text available on our website: filmdeath.fcsh.unl.pt/2025/08/11/r...
👉 Full text available on our website: filmdeath.fcsh.unl.pt/2025/08/11/r...
Response to “Death, Disappearance, and Digitality: Existential Meditations on Cinema, Anime and Media”, by Corey P. Cribb – Film and Death
filmdeath.fcsh.unl.pt
August 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
📖 Read Corey Cribb's response to our panel at #NECS2025, hosted by Lusófona University last June.
👉 Full text available on our website: filmdeath.fcsh.unl.pt/2025/08/11/r...
👉 Full text available on our website: filmdeath.fcsh.unl.pt/2025/08/11/r...
📚 The new number of RCL is out now and a new article from Susana Viegas is included!
🌐 Check the open access, peer reviewed article "Memória e Ausência na "Trilogia do Chile" (2010-2019) de Patricio Guzmán" here: revistas.fcsh.unl.pt/rcl/article/...
🌐 Check the open access, peer reviewed article "Memória e Ausência na "Trilogia do Chile" (2010-2019) de Patricio Guzmán" here: revistas.fcsh.unl.pt/rcl/article/...
July 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
📚 The new number of RCL is out now and a new article from Susana Viegas is included!
🌐 Check the open access, peer reviewed article "Memória e Ausência na "Trilogia do Chile" (2010-2019) de Patricio Guzmán" here: revistas.fcsh.unl.pt/rcl/article/...
🌐 Check the open access, peer reviewed article "Memória e Ausência na "Trilogia do Chile" (2010-2019) de Patricio Guzmán" here: revistas.fcsh.unl.pt/rcl/article/...
🙌 On July 10 7PM, Vasco Baptista Marques and Luísa Lopes will be speaking at the library of the Goethe-Institut of Lisbon.
🧠 The theme of this conversation will be "Novas Concepções sobre a Vida e a Morte"
This is part of Post/Zeitgeist, a Goethe-Institut/Gerador collaboration.
🧠 The theme of this conversation will be "Novas Concepções sobre a Vida e a Morte"
This is part of Post/Zeitgeist, a Goethe-Institut/Gerador collaboration.
June 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🙌 On July 10 7PM, Vasco Baptista Marques and Luísa Lopes will be speaking at the library of the Goethe-Institut of Lisbon.
🧠 The theme of this conversation will be "Novas Concepções sobre a Vida e a Morte"
This is part of Post/Zeitgeist, a Goethe-Institut/Gerador collaboration.
🧠 The theme of this conversation will be "Novas Concepções sobre a Vida e a Morte"
This is part of Post/Zeitgeist, a Goethe-Institut/Gerador collaboration.
✨ Join us and Bárbara Bergamaschi (NOVA University Lisbon) on July 30 3PM for our Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar: "Eroticism, Formlessness, and Death in Tscherkassky's Cinematic Hauntology".
🌐 It's an hybrid event held at NOVA FCSH (B201) and via Microsoft Teams.
+ register on our website (link in bio)
🌐 It's an hybrid event held at NOVA FCSH (B201) and via Microsoft Teams.
+ register on our website (link in bio)
June 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
✨ Join us and Bárbara Bergamaschi (NOVA University Lisbon) on July 30 3PM for our Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar: "Eroticism, Formlessness, and Death in Tscherkassky's Cinematic Hauntology".
🌐 It's an hybrid event held at NOVA FCSH (B201) and via Microsoft Teams.
+ register on our website (link in bio)
🌐 It's an hybrid event held at NOVA FCSH (B201) and via Microsoft Teams.
+ register on our website (link in bio)
🍃 On June 27, Lucas Ferraço Nassif will give a presentation titled "Multiplanar Unconsciouses: Studying Ferenczi’s Thalassa with Lacan’s symbolic and Guattari’s ecology" at Nature and Its Discontents happening at:
June 25-27: University of Essex, Colchester, UK
June 29: Freud Museum, London, UK
June 25-27: University of Essex, Colchester, UK
June 29: Freud Museum, London, UK
June 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🍃 On June 27, Lucas Ferraço Nassif will give a presentation titled "Multiplanar Unconsciouses: Studying Ferenczi’s Thalassa with Lacan’s symbolic and Guattari’s ecology" at Nature and Its Discontents happening at:
June 25-27: University of Essex, Colchester, UK
June 29: Freud Museum, London, UK
June 25-27: University of Essex, Colchester, UK
June 29: Freud Museum, London, UK
🙌 From June 23 to June 25, the Valetta Campus of the University of Malta will host the Film-Philosophy Conference 2025!
🔥 On June 23 3:45PM, our team will present a panel titled Death-Images.
🔥 On June 24 9AM, Pedro Inock will be presenting “ULTRAVIOLENCE: ‘Framing’ a Content-(un)Aware Glance”.
🔥 On June 23 3:45PM, our team will present a panel titled Death-Images.
🔥 On June 24 9AM, Pedro Inock will be presenting “ULTRAVIOLENCE: ‘Framing’ a Content-(un)Aware Glance”.
June 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
🙌 From June 23 to June 25, the Valetta Campus of the University of Malta will host the Film-Philosophy Conference 2025!
🔥 On June 23 3:45PM, our team will present a panel titled Death-Images.
🔥 On June 24 9AM, Pedro Inock will be presenting “ULTRAVIOLENCE: ‘Framing’ a Content-(un)Aware Glance”.
🔥 On June 23 3:45PM, our team will present a panel titled Death-Images.
🔥 On June 24 9AM, Pedro Inock will be presenting “ULTRAVIOLENCE: ‘Framing’ a Content-(un)Aware Glance”.
🌐 Susana Viegas will be present online on June 16 15:00 WEST at the round table on "Fantasmas que vivem", organized by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa (ILCML)
The session will be transmited on ILCML's youtube channel!
Join us!
The session will be transmited on ILCML's youtube channel!
Join us!
June 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
🌐 Susana Viegas will be present online on June 16 15:00 WEST at the round table on "Fantasmas que vivem", organized by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa (ILCML)
The session will be transmited on ILCML's youtube channel!
Join us!
The session will be transmited on ILCML's youtube channel!
Join us!