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Film-Philosophy International Email Salon

"If Descartes lived today, only through the medium of film would he be able to convey to us his Discours de la Methode, because every film, being a dynamic piece of work moving in time, is basically a theorem. It is the locale of the unfolding of an inexorable logic which traverses its own pivotal points, more precisely, the given poles of dialectics."
-- Alexandre Astruc

"The kino is a vulgar modern entertainment and I doubt if it can tell us anything serious about the modern condition."
-- Sigmund Freud

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The salon anticipates the following areas to be within the range of its playful chat (areas to be reborn through our philosophies of film philosophy):

• Film stories, actions and events that illustrate, rehearse or advance our understanding of traditional philosophical problems.
  
• The meanings of reflexive cinema.
  
• Philosophical inquiry into our emotional attraction to certain types of film drama.
  
• Film as philosophy.
  
• The place of Plato's cave in contemporary film philosophy.
  
• The ontology of the moving image: film movement, illusion, representation; the 'existence' of fictional characters; film as a continuous present; persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon.
• The empiricist essentialism of filmology.
  
• Cognitivist and phenomenological perspectives on the film experience.
  
• Time, memory, and space in cinema. Imagination, dreams, mental imagery, other minds and film.
  
• Characters as metaphors for truth or knowledge; screen detectives as epistemologists; the philosophical universalising of motives and actions.
  
• Film as a new metaphysics.
  
• Cultural philosophies of the moving sound image as mass media.
  
• Filmic aesthetics.
  
• The reliability of documentary images - narrative and profilmic manipulation.
  
• The status of the moving sound image as thought and mind.
  
• Philosophers' cameos in films.
  
• The history of the linking of film and philosophy.