Academic papers

(conferences and invited)

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01.09.21 - “In Shock and Diffidence: Imaging an Ethics of the Earth with Heidegger”, a practitioner approach to climate emergency in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, British Society for Phenomenology Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway. (on The Deep)

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07.04.21 - “Falling out of Time: Gesture, Community, the Open in Aernout Mik’s Training Ground (2006) and Double Bind (2018) – a reading with Heidegger and Esposito”, BAFTSS Conference, Southampton University.

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24.02.17 – "Gesture, performance, film: the making of belief in Faith and Body of War" at "Film and the Other Arts", Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. (Practitioner talk following screening of Body of War)

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08.02.17 – "The Immanence of belief: presencing being and world through Faith", School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. (Talk following screening of Faith)

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11.09.16 – "The immanence of belief: presencing being and world through Faith", ISRLC Conference (Lines in Sand: Borders, Conflicts and Transitions in Religion, Literature and Culture 2016, International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture), University of Glasgow.

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01.04.16 – “How Figures Dwell in Moving Images – a Heideggerian reflection”, The End(s) of Art Symposium, University of Dundee.

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22.07.15 – "The ecstatic cinematography of Bela Tarr's The Turin Horse: Towards a Heideggerian aesthetic of transcendence", Film-Philosophy Conference, University of Oxford.

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03.07.14 – "The re-birth of tragedy in Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux – a reading with Nietzsche and Heidegger", Film-Philosophy Conference, University of Glasgow.

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06.05.14 – "Persistence, temporality and the end of vision in Bela Tarr's The Turin Horse", International Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, University of Lisbon.

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02.07.13 – "Body of War - a cinematography of the face-to-face", European Cinema Research Forum, University of Edinburgh.