"Death in the Eyes: Thinking and Representing Human Disappearance in Cinema"

From May 5 to May 7, the workshop “Death in the Eyes: Thinking and Representing Human Disappearance in Cinema” (La muerte en los ojos: Pensar y representar la desaparición del ser humano en el cine) will take place at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Coordinated by Susana Viegas (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) and David Ferragut (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), the event is structured into three sessions.

The first session features a screening of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957), a film that explicitly reflects on death. The following two sessions will host specialists offering new perspectives on the topic. These sessions are divided into four panels: two panels explore the relationship between death and cinema, and two additional panels focus on parallel activities of the project. These include animated cinema, for which two workshops have been organized, and non-human cinema, which examines the disappearance of the human being in the image or as a central theme.

Each session will begin with a keynote talk to provide a broader framework for the discussions.

The presentations will be held in Catalan, Spanish, and English, followed by a brief Q&A session.

The event is open to all. UAB students requiring a certificate of participation should register here: [email protected].

Funded by the European Union (ERC, FILM AND DEATH, 101088956). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.