The Philosophy Film Club is a monthly event aiming to bridge theory and practice by demonstrating what philosophy looks like “in action.” We encourage students, academics and anyone else interested to join for these carefully curated screenings with a post screening discussion led by a local philosopher. Students pay R40, all other members of public pay only R80.
SCREENINGS
TUE 8 Sep 5pm: Sirāt BOOK NOW. The word Sirāt refers to the razor-thin, perilous bridge between heaven and hell, an unclear metaphor at the start of the film when viewers follow Luis who is travelling through southern Morocco with his son, Esteban, in search of his missing daughter. Aiming to bridge theory and practice by screening films, the film will be followed by a discussion led by a local philosopher, this time Prof. Chantelle Gray from the University of Johannesburg.
MORE ON THE PHILOSOPHY FILM CLUB.
Many philosophers have written about films. Gilles Deleuze famously wrote two volumes on cinema, arguing that is a “form of thought,” by which he means that films are not only about philosophical themes and issues, but are themselves visual philosophies. For others, like Jacques Rancière, film has the capacity to both reproduce and disrupt what he calls the “portioning of the sensible” – or the distribution of visible, audible, sayable and affective experiences in society.
