Since its emergence at the turn of the 20th century, film has made possible a new way of encountering the world. On the one hand, its ability to record, magnify, and reframe aspects of our world allows it to interrogate, narrate, and disclose the world – along with our modes of inhabiting it – in distinctive ways. On the other hand, being pledged to the plurality of individual lives in an intransigently material world, film holds out an irreducibly democratic promise. Understanding these large epistemic, aesthetic, and socio-political claims of the medium is the object of a philosophical analysis of film.
- Teacher: Dr Harrison, Victoria Harrison