Teaching code

4S008748

Teacher

Gianluca Solla

Coordinator

Gianluca Solla

Credits

3

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/01 - THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Period

Sem. 1A dal Sep 25, 2023 al Nov 4, 2023.

Erasmus students

Not available

Courses Single

Not Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

Workshop on Philosophy and Cinema
The Workshop of Philosophy and Cinema aims to specifically develop contemporary philosophical research focusing on cinema and related issues. Though it mainly employs philosophical methodologies, it also resorts to use elements and conceptual tools coming from other disciplines, such as psychoanalysis, anthropology, history of culture, and visual studies.
Particular attention will be given to the development of the following skills:
- Understanding the status of art and its political implications;
- Ability to compare peculiar aspects of thought with contemporary themes and / or authors;
- Ability to formulate independent judgments on the genesis, nature and meaning of the issues addressed during the courses.

Prerequisites and basic notions

The Laboratory in Philosophy and Cinema does not provide prerequisites, other than the willingness of each student to combine the fundamental questions of philosophy with the basic notions of cinema and video-art that will be addressed during the meetings.

Program

Montage as a form of experience
Throughout the twentieth century, film montage has proven to be a formidable expressive resource not only on the level of spatiotemporal organization of the image, but also on the level of the viewer's perceptual and interpretive responses. From an initial purely technical stage, the processes of articulation and recomposition of audiovisual material carried out through cuts and splices quickly became a structuring element of the narrative scaffolding of films, organizing the flow of images into a text with recognizable partitions in which the viewer could discern a "story."
Montage thus represents the appropriate theoretical environment for understanding - in its generality - the work of composing, decomposing and recomposing the elements that participate in structuring the image and experience, relating the different expressive planes and the multiplicity of their sensitive data. If we recall that the coordination of the sensible with the intelligible is, since Kant, the specific work that characterizes the imagination, audio-visual montage consequently becomes the tool that makes the viewer's imagination work on increasingly differentiated registers and through variable technical formats. At stake in it are the very notions of image and imagination as synthetic processes that weave and re-weave experience into ever new forms.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

1. Theoretical meetings with discussion;
2. seminar meetings starting from the viewing of film material;
3. group work in the classroom;
4. discussion with the guests of the laboratory.
* PER LA SUA CARATTERISTICA IL LABORATORIO SI SVOLGE ESCLUSIVAMENTE IN PRESENZA, NON E' PREVISTA ALCUNA REGISTRAZIONE.

Learning assessment procedures

There is no exam, but a free participation in group work and discussion. Those who, for unavoidable reasons, find themselves in the conditions of not being able to attend the Laboratory experience, will contact the teacher at the end of the Laboratory to agree on a replacement written research.

Evaluation criteria

No evaluation, only partecipation

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

There is no grade, only an approval of the coursework with a minimum of 70 percent attendance or a replacement paper.

Exam language

Italiano