Invitation for the lecture „Image, Cinema, Dream: Langer on the Moving Pictures” by Professor Randall E. Auxier

Department of Philosophy of Culture (Faculty of Philosophy, UW) invites for the lecture 

                    Image, Cinema, Dream: Langer on the Moving Pictures

                                        The lecture will be delivered by 

                                          Professor Randall E. Auxier

                                   (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)

Abstract:

Susanne Langer said that the primary semblance of movies as an art form is that it is like dreaming. But in this case, someone else dreams for us, and our immobility in the theater chair, in the dark, simulating the sleep state, is the beginning of an education of eye and ear in which our generalized passivity is a condition for travels through lucid narration. A thousand tiny anticipations and rememberings are blended in our interpreting of what we see and hear. I will explore some of the analogies to dreaming we experience when we see a movie on the big screen at the cinema, especially the bending and shaping of time that moviemakers (such as Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino) like to bring into our “waking dreams.”

Date: Tuesday, December 14th, 3pm – 4:30pm

The lecture will be given online: https://meet.google.com/uee-zcta-nyd

Contact: dr Przemysław Bursztyka (pbursztyka@uw.edu.pl)