THE PHILOSOPHY FILM CLUB presents: Memory House (2020)

Many philosophers have written about films. Gilles Deleuze famously wrote two volumes on cinema, arguing that is a “form of thought,” by which he means that films are not only about philosophical themes and issues, but are themselves visual philosophies. For others, like Jacques Rancière, film has the capacity to both reproduce and disrupt what he calls the “portioning of the sensible” – or the distribution of visible, audible, sayable and affective experiences in society.

Please join the Philosophy Film Club this May for a screening of the 2023 film, Samsara, directed by Lois Patiño. Together, we will explore one of the long-lasting questions in philosophy: that of the meaning of life and our confrontation with death. The discussion will be led by Prof. Chantelle Gray from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg.

We encourage viewers not to read about the film beforehand as it may spoil the unique experience thereof.

Students pay R40, all other members of public pay only R80.