The Philosophical Film Salon returns with Chris Marker's 1983 documentary, a work that moves through brief images and recollections from countries including Japan, France, Iceland, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau. Told through a female narrator reading travel letters, the film gathers fragments that seem disconnected yet belong to one shared, shifting world, and it turns the gaze back on the camera and the person behind it.
After the screening, philosopher Luka Rudez gives a short talk on the film's existential layers, drawing on Henri Bergson's view of memory as the building block of reality. The talk opens onto a shared conversation about the meaning-giving power of memories and how the past both takes hold of us and fades in our experience of the world. Rudez holds a master's degree in the history of ideas and researches the relationship between people and the under- and superhuman, particularly the vegetative and the heavenly, and medieval and 20th-century philosophy.
