Katia Hay: Film, Reality and Repetition In my paper I would like to analyse the different ways in which the problem of ‚repetition‘ has been thematized in films and in philosophy. Some of the questions I would like to raise in this context include: To what extent is repetition (of the same) possible, i.e. […]
Henri Bergson (1907) utilized a metaphor borrowed from cinematograph to represent the usual way of human thought about motion and evolution in comparison with his original approach to them grounded on his concept of time as »durée« (duration). The analogy consists in restoring the motion from a series of immovable pictures (frames) only as […]
The alternation between dream and awake states creates a contemplative fictional life as an intermediate position. Dreams are subjective and volatile worlds of thought, which can be experienced as non-intersubjective and immersive. There are many analogies between non-mimetic forms of artistic expression and dreams. And indeed there are artistic possibilities of depictions of dream […]