The Real of Reality | International Conference on Philosophy and Film

Wed, 02.11.2016 – Sun, 06.11.2016

ZKM_Media Theater, ZKM_Lecture Hall, ZKM_Media Lounge, ZKM_Cube

Aslaug Holm is a Norwegian filmmaker and cinematographer. She has made a number of shorts and documentaries and has founded the production company Fenris Film with her husband Tore Buvarp. She was the director and cinematographer of »Rich Country« (2006) for which she won the FIPRESCI prize, cinematographer and editor of »Cool and Crazy« (2001), which was awarded as best European documentary 2001.

Just recently Holm became the first documentary filmmaker to win Norway’s Amanda Award for best directing, for her compelling documentary »Brothers« (2015), which has now played theatrically in Norway for almost six months. In this personal film, shot over a period of five years and recalling Richard Linklater’s »Boyhood«, Holm is documenting her two sons growing up in Oslo. An experienced cinematographer and documentary filmmaker, Holm is now writing fiction.

International Conference on Philosophy and Film

Photography and film in particular paved the way for complex philosophical questions regarding the nature of reality and its mechanical reproduction. What does film reproduce and how can we grasp this element, which has the transactive ability to form reality although originating in reality? This shaping takes palce through a complex interaction of image, action and narration and tends to permeate reality completely. It is an inconspicuous process that already affects our everyday life profoundly and is based on a revolution of the real. What does film show? Do we have access to reality that is not based on images or narrations? And what can film and its analysis contribute to philosophical debates on the real?

These are questions we are asking to engage in a dialogue between philosophy and film. For five days, one hundred and fifty philosophers, media scholars and filmmakers will connect philosophical theory with cinematic practice and open up new ideas and concepts. To accompany the program, there will be film screenings of documentaries of the invited filmmakers.

The participation at the conference is also possible without the presentation of a paper.

The conference will be held in English.