Note on the Cover Illustration VII
Preface VIII
Nathan Andersen
Notes on Contributors X
Introduction 1
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 8
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
2
The One in Photogénie: Plotinus and Jean Epstein 28
Steve Choe
3
Is the Universe a Work of Art that We Can Perceive in a Film? 44
Tony Partridge
4
Heracles, Hylas, and the Uses of Reflection 67
Stephen R.L. Clark
5
Beyond the Moving Images: A Plotinian Reading of The Truman Show 91
Giannis Stamatellos
6
Being as Illumination of the One and Its Manifestation through Cinematic Images 105
Sebastian F. Moro Tornese
7
Moving Image and Conversion: A Neoplatonic Film Theory 123
8
Character, Spectator, Film: On Cinema as a Plotinian Hierarchy 144
Enrico Terrone
9
Plotinus and Tarkovsky on Experience and the Transparency of Reality 158
Daniel Regnier
10
Images of a Moving Self: Plotinus and Bruce Nauman 187
Panayiota Vassilopoulou
11
Avoiding the “Dead Thing Decorated.” Neoplatonism and Daniel Martin: Towards a Poetics of Film? 210
Michelle Phillips Buchberger
12
The Mystical and the Beautiful: The Construction of a Plotinian Aesthetics of Film 229
Cameron Barrows
Filmography 243
Index 245