This video essay examines how film captures the themes of death and rebirth in philosophy, suggesting fresh perspectives on mortality.
If philosophy’s age-old entanglement with death unravelled alongside modernity’s privatisation of dying, films featuring global philosophers appear to pick up this ancient ‘necromantic’ baton. By poetically compos(i)ting imaging-imaginings of real philosophers’ deaths and dying acts into a Danse Macabre this video essay expressively ponders philosophy’s entanglements with, and conditional/continual rebirths through, different media forms.
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