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  Замислување на мирот: дијалог за перцепцијата [Original title: Inventing Peace: A Dialogue on Perception] Вим Вендерс и Мери Зурнази / Wim Wenders and Mary Zournaz Skopje: Philosophical Society of Macedonia, 2019   “Inventing Peace”—translated as „Замислување на мирот“—is a book written in two voices: a film director and a professor of philosophy. Through their dialogue about peace, they invite the reader to imagine and (re)invent peace, giving peace an image and a voice in…

    Philosophy and Film 2 – Conference Proceedings  On May 25 and 26, 2023, as a prelude to the 13th Philosophical Film Festival, the second edition of the international conference “Philosophy and Film” was held. Even richer than the inaugural one, it featured 22 speakers from 15 different countries, spread over six diverse sessions, aptly titled after six of the eight works of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Histoire(s) du cinéma,” the central screening of the Additional…

PP: Lecture 14. FFF 10.6 Monday 12:00, Faculty of Philosophy (Lecture Theater 8) Kant’s unsocial sociability (ungesellige Geselligkeit) Ivan Milenkovic, PhD   Kant belongs to the group of anthropological pessimists; for him, people are selfish, self-living, jealous creatures who long for property and a master. Therefore, by nature, there is antagonism between people. Everyone wants to have more than others; everyone wants to be a master. At the same time, people realize that they cannot…

In 1946—the year she filmed “Ritual in Transfigured Time,” her final appearance as an actress—Maya Deren also published two texts that most fully outline her aesthetic-philosophical worldview: “An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form, and Film” and “Cinema as an Art Form.” The latter, shorter but more well-known, begins with the following dedication to Solomon David Derenkowsky, a Kiev-based Jewish psychiatrist: “To my father, who, when I was a child, once spoke to me of…

22.6 (Wednesday) 13:00-14:30  Cinematheque CINEMATHEQUE SCREENING & WORKSHOP “FILMOSOPHY WITH CHILDREN” with Martin Popovski, PhD   Within the segment called “Phil(m)osophy with children”, the Philosophical Film Festival organized a philosophical experience for the youngest audience this year as well. This time, the Cinematheque hosted third-grade children from “Jan Amos Comenius” Elementary School who participated in the workshop entitled “Why am I me?”. By showing short philosophically provocative videos, children were encouraged to share their authentic…

And this year, within the framework of the 14th Philosophical Film Festival, the Youth Workshop was held in Skopje with Dr. Atanas Chuposki. The workshop is intended for young people between the ages of 17 and 19 who are interested in the aesthetics of the film language. The aim of the workshop is to acquaint young film fans with the basics of film language and ways of interpreting the film story. Like other arts, film…

14.5 (Tuesday)   Aditional Programme: PFF doc.: / PFF@MCA 19:00  Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (free screening) IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN [Im Spiegel der Maya Deren, 2002] Martina Kudlácek, AT/CH/DE, 103’   “In the Mirror of Maya Deren” is a feature-length documentary that reconstructs the complex life, work, and artistic engagement of the so-called “mother of avant-garde and experimental film”—Maya Deren. Inspired by an announcement published within the Anthology Film Archives by Jonas Mekas…

This year’s High School Programme of the Educational Programme returned to the format of a few years ago, which is one central screening organized in the Youth Cultural Center for students from Skopje, and the students from other cities had the opportunity to watch screenings of the selected film in their schools. As this year’s video lecture, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Skopje, we have chosen “Ali: Fear Eats the Soul [Angst essen Seele auf,…

* originally published (in Macedonian) on June 3, 2023 at УМНО People who are more advanced, more ambitious, who have higher aspirations, they change the world. And they would love cinema forever, I guess. And they are never going to abandon cinema. The film “Perfect Number” by one of the greatest European directors and screenwriters today, Krzysztof Zanussi from Poland, will have its Macedonian premiere on June 8 at the Cinematheque, within the framework of…