Cinema and Philosophy Project

PI: Maria Irene Aparício

Project description

The project is aimed at disseminating among the public (libraries and cultural associations) and in schools knowledge of philosophy of cinema, by organizing sessions and workshops for discussing and commenting movies.

Entities involved

1. Cinemateca
2. Gulbenkian
3. Culturgest
4. Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
5. APORDOC – Associação pelo Documentário

Concluded intervention activities (as of December 2017)

• Cinema program in cultural institutions.

Current and future intervention activities

• Organizing commented cinema sessions and workshops in schools and libraries.
• January-July 2018. 7 cinema sessions consisting in the projection and discussion of a movie, and a following workshop.
• Problematizing reality – encounters between documentary film and philosophy. Program on documentary films organized with the Docs Kingdom - International Seminar on Documentary Film) / APORDOC – Associação pelo Documentário

Current and future research and dissemination activities

• Publication of an edited volume Shared Emotions: Children’s World & Cinema (eds: Maria Irene Aparício, Dina Mendonça, Stefanie Bauman, Susana Mouzinho).
• Organizing the conference on Shared Emotions: Children`s World & Cinema