Philosophy and film

[nj8 <nj8@ntlworld.com>]

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I'm a little late out of the blocks on this.

Seems to me there are two distinct questions here. One is about the 
philosophy of film, which involves not merely questions of aesthetic 
value, but also issues of genre, representation, the nature of seeing in 
film etc etc. See Greg Currie's Image and Mind, or George Wilson's 
Narration in Light as instances of this, or articles in Greg's Art and 
Minds, or the Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Oxford Handbook of 
Aesthetics, etc.

The second question is about films that encourage debate about 
philosophical questions (including perhaps, debates about the philosophy 
of film ... some Godard might be an example of the latter). About three 
years ago I set up a season of films at Nottingham University 
(originally called the Cartesian Cinema) to encourage this sort of 
debate. We showed, inter alia:

Pi
The Matrix
eXistenZ
Memento
Dark City
Bladerunner
Rashomon
Do The Right Thing
Possible Worlds
Wittgenstein
All of me
Crimes and Misdemeanours

John Campbell suggested we show Total Recall, but we never got around to 
it...the season still continues, sporadically, as Films for Thought, but 
no longer organised by me.

Nick



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