International Conference “Philosophy & Film”
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A quick reminder about tomorrow’s PHILOSOPHY AND FILM CONFERENCE in the framework of the Philosophical Film Festival – taking place online, starting from 9am to 6pm (CET/GMT+2) on our Zoom platform. For everyone interested to follow the Conference as an attendee on Zoom, please use this link and passcode:
Zoom link
Passcode: pff2021
If the capacity of the online room has been reached, you can also follow the Conference on the Festival’s social media channels and pose questions to our participants in the comments.
The Conference is co-organized by the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje and the Faculty of Dramatic Arts Skopje.
FIRST SESSION
moderator: Jasna Koteska
09h00
Conference Opening
Ana DISHLIESKA MITOVA (Director of PFF)
Jasmina POPOVSKA (Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy – Skopje)
Mimi TANEVSKA SRBINOVSKA (Dean of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts – Skopje)
09h15
Film Philosophy as a Problem
Keynote speaker: Hrvoje TURKOVIĆ (HR)
PhD, full professor in retirement, Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb,
Member of the editing board of the academic film magazine “Croatian Cinema Chronicle”, Croatia
09:55
The Question of Transcendentalism and Cinema
Darko ŠTRAJN (SI)
PhD, Professor, Educational Research Institute – Ljubljana,
AMEU–ISH (Graduate School of Humanities) – Ljubljana,
School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
10:15
Film as Philosophy and Thought Experiments
Diana NEIVA (PT)
PhD Candidate/Researcher, University of Minho – Braga, Portugal
10:35
What Makes a Dream Sequence Philosophically Relevant?
Damir SMILJANIĆ (RS)
PhD, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy,
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
10:55
Continuity Errors and the Indivisibility of Change:
On Cinematic Time Travel
John Ó MAOILEARCA (UK)
PhD, professor, Department of Critical and Historical Studies,
Kingston University, Great Britain
11:15 Discussion
11:30 Coffee Break
SECOND SESSION
moderator: Vangel Nonevski
11:45
Cinephilosophy: A New Way Of Doing Philosophy
Keynote speaker: Serdar ÖZTÜRK (TR)
PhD, Professor, Department of Radio, Television and Cinema, Faculty of Communication, Ankara HBV University,
Founder, Publisher and Editor, Journal of “SineFilozofi”, Turkey
12:25
Cinematic Iconography of Movement as a Model for Understanding Ontology
of Graphic Literature and Comic book Art
Boshko KARADZOV (MK)
PhD, Professor of Philosophy,
Independent Researcher in the Field of Graphic Literature and Intermedia Art, N. Macedonia
12:45
The Essayistic as A Method
Stanisław LIGUZIŃSKI (PL/NL)
PhD Candidate, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Research Fellow, Essay Film Lab, Łódź Film School, Poland
Research Advisor, ‘Research in and Through Cinema’ master programme, the Netherlands Film Academy
13:05
Medieval Literary and Visual Themes in European Cinematography:
Modes of Appearance
Slava YANAKIEVA (BG)
PhD, Department of History and Theory of Culture, University St. Kliment Ohridski – Sofia,
Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Culture, Byzantine working group, Bulgaria
13:25
The Sublime, the Terrible and the Ugly: An Exploration of Cosmic Horror
in Film and Literature
Tijana PETKOVSKA (MK)
MA in Philosophical Sciences in the field of Contemporary Philosophy, N. Macedonia
Completed FAMU International – Academy Program in Film Directing, Czech Republic
13:45 Discussion
14:o0 Lunch Break
THIRD SESSION
moderator: Ana Dimishkovska
15:00
The Film is not Round: Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain (1994)
Keynote speaker: Dominique CHATEAU (FR)
PhD, Emeritus professor, Univesity Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne,
Lecturer, École supérieure du paysage, Versailles,
Editor-in-chrief of “Nouvelle Revue d’Esthétique”, France
15:40
Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element and the Notion of Quintessence
Georgios ARABATZIS &
PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Director of the NKUA Institutional Discourse Research Lab, Greece
Evangelos D. PROTOPAPADAKIS (GR)
PhD, Associate Professor of Applied Ethics, Department of Philosophy,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Head of the Greek Unit of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (Haifa)
Director of the NKUA Applied Philosophy Research Lab, Greece
16:00
FemFilmosophy and Social Reproduction Theory
In/After the Times of Crisis
Senka ANASTASOVA (MK)
PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Dramatic Arts – Skopje, N. Macedonia
Beatrice Bain Visiting Fellow, University of California Berkeley, US
16:20
Film Making in the Subjunctive: Fantasy in the Films of Nacer Khemir
Niall KENNEDY (UK/IE)
PhD, Teaching Fellow, French department, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
16:40
The Environmental Ethics of Honeyland
Sasho KOKALANOV (MK)
MA, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Dramatic Arts – Skopje, N. Macedonia
17:00 General Discussion