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Film-Philos-Orama: A Head-Trip-Tych

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Fleming D Film-Philos-Orama: A Head-Trip-Tych [Exhibition] University of Edinburgh, George Square. 07.02.2025 Available at: https://llc.ed.ac.uk/film-and-intermediality/efs-250207

Abstract
Shelves now groan under the volumes of work that explore what ¡°Film Philosophy¡± is, or does. Dancing lightly over this dense polemical corpus, Film-Philos-Orama wittily remixes a cornucopia of global films about/featuring real philosophers (including Confucius, Laozi, Socrates, Plato, Karl Marx, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Frantz Fanon, Iris Murdoch, Brice Parain, Francis Jeanson, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Alain Badiou, Marshall McLuhan, Cornel West, and Slavoj ?i?ek) with a wider corpus by philosophically inclined filmmakers (such as Fei Mu, Jean-Luc Godard, Astra Taylor, Sophie Fiennes, and Richard Linklater). The result is a poetically reeling pedagogical example of screen-philosophy in action.

Type of mediathree-part video-essay
StatusUnpublished
Title of seriesEdinburgh Film Seminar
Conference locationUniversity of Edinburgh, George Square
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Dr David Fleming

Dr David Fleming

Senior Lecturer, Communications, Media and Culture