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Publication . Viegas, Susana; Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA); Universidade Catolica Portuguesa

Inspired by Farshad Zahedi’s audiovisual essay The Petrified Object and the Poetics of Time in Cinema, this article briefly presents three philosophical approaches to cinema’s ways of expressing time – as articulated by Bergson, Tarkovsky, and Deleuze – and questions how absolute time and chronological time are brought to a state of crisis by this modern form of art.

2022Artigo científico

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Intercessores e Autores no Cinema segundo Gilles Deleuze

Publication . Viegas, Susana; Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)

Como conciliar a forte presença da “politique des auteurs” nos textos que Gilles Deleuze dedicou ao cinema com uma conceção de “enunciado coletivo”? Para analisar a necessidade de uma conciliação, é necessário esclarecer o que Deleuze entende por autor e por coletivo. É possível encontrar na sua filosofia do cinema uma ideia pós-estruturalista de autor que rejeita que este seja um indivíduo unificado. É nessa contracorrente metafísica que ele desenvolve uma conceção de “enunciados coletivos” ao falar do cinema político. Assim, através das formas de agenciamento que surgem numa certa prática cinematográfica que questiona a conciliação, o documentário de fabulação (Pierre Perrault e Abbas Kiarostami), é possível revisitar a “politique des auteurs” e reavaliar práticas colaborativas. How can we reconcile the strong presence of the politique des auteurs in Gilles Deleuze’s texts on cinema with the concept of ‘collective enunciation’? To investigate the need for such reconciliation, we first need to establish what Deleuze understands by author and collective. His film philosophy evinces a poststructuralist idea of the author, rejecting it as a unified subject. In that metaphysical countermovement he proceeds with a conception of ‘collective enunciations’ when talking about political cinema. Thus, through the forms of assemblage that arise in a specific cinematographic practice – the documentary of fabulation (Pierre Perrault and Abbas Kiarostami) – it is possible to revisit the politique des auteurs and reevaluate collaborative practices.

2023-01Artigo científico

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Death as Film-Philosophy’s Muse

Publication . Viegas, Susana; Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA); Edinburgh University Press

This article explores the affinities between film and philosophy by returning to a shared meditation on death and the nature of time. Death has been considered the muse of philosophy and can also be considered the muse of film-philosophy. But what does it mean to say that to film-philosophise is to learn to die, or a kind of training for dying? Film is an artistic object that reminds us of death’s inevitability; it is a meditation on the transient and finite nature of time. Films as diverse as Mizoguchi’s Tales of Ugetsu, Resnais’s Hiroshima mon Amour, and Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light take an uncanny approach to the subject, expressing the paradoxical coexistence of life and death and of different temporal dimensions. This article explores the philosophical concept of the death-image and time through a Deleuzian approach to cinema, meditating on the flashback, the coexistence of the present and the past, and the emergence of a new type of Lazarean character – one who returns from the dead. The article aims to clarify not simply death’s unquestionable omnipresence in film but also cinema’s role as a contemporary version of the trope of memento mori.

2023Artigo científico

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Derrida on Cinema’s Spectral Images

Publication . Viegas, Susana; Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)

2025Capítulo de livro

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