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Plotinus and the Moving Image offers the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus´ philosophy and film. It discusses Plotinian concepts like "the One" and "the intelligible" in a cinematic context, relates Plotinus´ theory of time to the modern time-image, and finds Neoplatonic contemplation in Contemplative Cinema.

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Plotinus and the Moving Image offers the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus´ philosophy and film. It discusses Plotinian concepts like "the One" in a cinematic context and relates Plotinus´ theory of time as a transitory intelligible movement of the soul to Bergson´s and Deleuze´s time-image. Film is a unique medium for a rapprochement of our modern consciousness with the thought of Plotinus. The Neoplatonic vestige is particularly worth exploring in the context of the newly emerging "Cinema of Contemplation." Plotinus´ search for the "intelligible" that can be grasped neither by sense perception nor by merely logical abstractions leads to a fluent way of seeing. Parallels that had so far never been discussed are made plausible. This book is a milestone in the philosophy of film.

Contributors are: Cameron Barrows, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Michelle Phillips Buchberger, Steve Choe, Stephen Clark, Vincenzo Lomuscio, Tony Partridge, Daniel Regnier, Giannis Stamatellos, Enrico Terrone, Sebastian F. Moro Tornese and Panayiota Vassilopoulou.

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Note on the Cover Illustration
Preface
  Nathan Andersen
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
  Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Giannis Stamatellos

1 "Cut Away Excess and Straighten the Crooked:" The Simplicity of Contemplative Cinema in the Light of Plotinus´ Philosophy
  Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

2 The One in Photogénie : Plotinus and Jean Epstein
  Steve Choe

3 Is the Universe a Work of Art that We Can Perceive in a Film?
  Tony Partridge

4 Heracles, Hylas, and the Uses of Reflection
  Stephen R.L. Clark

5 Beyond the Moving Images: A Plotinian Reading of The Truman Show
  Giannis Stamatellos

6 Being as Illumination of the One and Its Manifestation through Cinematic Images
  Sebastian F. Moro Tornese

7 Moving Image and Conversion: A Neo-Platonic Film Theory
  Vincenzo Lomuscio

8 Character, Spectator, Film: On Cinema as a Plotinian Hierarchy
  Enrico Terrone

9 Plotinus and Tarkovsky on Experience and the Transparency of Reality
  Daniel Regnier

10 Images of a Moving Self: Plotinus and Bruce Nauman
  Panayiota Vassilopoulou

11 Avoiding the "Dead Thing Decorated." Neoplatonism and Daniel Martin : Towards a Poetics of Film?
  Michelle Phillips Buchberger

12 The Mystical and the Beautiful: The Construction of a Plotinian Aesthetics of Film
  Cameron Barrows

Filmography
Index

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