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Film and Philosophy at CEPPA – Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
September 25, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 8:00 pm
We are proud to present the Eigth Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and discuss Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings and videos.
To Read:
On Feminist and Queer Theory:
Clara Bradbury-Rance – “Lesbian legibility and queer legacy in Céline Sciamma’s Portrat de la jeune file en feu (2019)”
Emma Genovese & Tamsin Phillipa Paige – “Life as Distinct from Patriarchal Influence: Exploreing Queerness and Freedom through Portait of a Lady on Fire”
Tom Knoblach – “This is How You See Me?”: Collisions of Influence and Feminocentric Canon Building in Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
On the look and the gaze:
John Berger – Ways of Seeing Ch 1 and 3 (and if feeling cheeky also ch 4) [also available on video!]
Michel Foucault – Las Meninas (ch 1 of The Order of Things)
Laura Mulvey – Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema
Jean Paul Sartre – First Attitude towards Others, (Part 3 Ch 1 of Being and Nothingness) (especially the bit discussing Proust; p 364-370 in this edition)
To Watch:
Films:
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (Nina Menkes, 2022)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Videos:
Catherine Grant – Semblance (Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Vertigo)
Broey Deschanel – What Portrait of a Lady on Fire Tells Us About “the Gaze”