

From June 23 to June 25, the Valetta Campus of the University of Malta will host the Film-Philosophy Conference 2025. Our team will present a panel titled Death-Images, on the first day, June 23, at 3:45PM (Room 103). This panel explores the concept of the death-image through the work of Alain Resnais, focusing on what […]

Our team will be at NECS 2025 (Lusófona University of Lisbon)
From 18 to 21 June, Lusófona University of Lisbon will host The NECS 2025 Conference, dedicated to the theme Discovering/Uncovering: Navigating the Complexities of Screen Media. On June 19 2-3:40PM, our project’s PI, Susana Viegas, will be present at the section Panels & Workshops, for a ERC Info Session led by Nicoleta Bazgan from the […]

CfP Special Issue on Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films
Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films Dedicated to the last films of renowned filmmakers, often referred to as “testament films” or “swan songs,” this Special Issue will examine their thematic, narrative, and stylistic elements, viewing these final works as profound summations of their creators’ careers and philosophical syntheses of […]

The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Bárbara Bergamaschi
The next session of our Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars will be led by Bárbara Bergamaschi (NOVA University Lisbon), who will talk about “Eroticism, Formlessness, and Death in Tscherkassky’s Cinematic Hauntology”. Abstract This paper examines the work of Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Peter Tscherkasskythrough the lens of Georges Bataille’s concepts of l’informe (the formless), eroticism, and expenditure. Positioned […]

Lucas Ferraço Nassif at the University of Essex and the Freud Museum
Lucas Ferraço Nassif will be present at the Nature and Its Discontents Conference SIPP/ISSP (International Society of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy), happening on June 25-27 at the University of Essex in Colchester and on June 29 at the Freud Museum in London. On June 27, he will give a presentation titled “Multiplanar Unconsciouses: Studying Ferenczi’s Thalassa […]