What is Cinema? For Alain Badiou (& me too!!) , films think. He contends that Cinema is an art form that bears witness to the “Other” and renders human presence visible. Through the experience of viewing, movement of thought that constitutes the film is passed on to the viewer. Cinema has a unique relationship with philosophy: we could say that Cinema is a philosophical experiment. The relationship between them is not a relationship of knowledge. It is a living, concrete relationship; a relationship of transformation. In other words, Cinema transforms the very notion of an idea. Cinema basically consists in creating new ideas about what an idea is. Excerpted from “Cinema as Philosophical Experimentation” by Alain Badiou
Posted on: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 11:02:55 +0000
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