war – 2nd international film and philosophy conference

War, Displaced People and Poverty in Contemporary Films

by Rahime Özgün Kehya

Thursday, May 25
6:00 pm – 6:20 pm (CEST)

Rahime Özgün Kehya discusses the difficulties war-induced displaced people face on the big screen—and in the world. Focusing on three selected films from as many different countries, she shows how discrimination and exploitation stem from poverty and underprivilege—and not the other way around.

War through the Lens of a Camera: Reflections on Seeing in the Work of Ernst Jünger

by Martín Heredero Campo

Thursday, May 25
8:00 pm – 8:20 pm (CEST)

Drawing on the works of Ernst Jünger and Edgardo Cozarinsky’s La Guerre d’un Seul Homme, Martin Heredero Campo explores how technology affects the way of seeing in both cinema and philosophy, arguing that the challenge posed by those first cameras in the WWI trenches persists today, requiring an even newer anthropology.