In this conversation, we will take as a starting point the themes of travel and cinematic utopia, which are central to Ben Russell's work, to discuss several of the director's films. We will explore his focus on uniting experimentalism, psychedelia, and ethnography as a way of questioning the sensory and subjective dimensions of cinema, thus expanding the spectrum of possible worlds it allows us to create and experience. - Susana Nascimento Duarte

biografia

Susana Nascimento Duarte is Associate Professor in Film and Cinema Studies at ESAD-CR/IPL and a research member of CineLab at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA/FCSH/). She integrated the research projects Film and Philosophy. Mapping an encounter (IFILNOVA/FCSH/UNL) and False Movement: Studies on Writing and Film (CEC/FLUL). She is currently a researcher of the project Fragmentation and Reconfiguration: experiencing the city between art and philosophy (IFILNOVA/FCSH/UNL). She was one of the programmers of the Series of Meetings What is the Archive?, organised by Videoteca/Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa. She is the Interviews' Editor of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image.

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