Yoram Ron – Israel, França 2014 – 68 min – HD – V.O.S.C.
[mini-icon icon=”time”] Wednesday 28/9 18.30h
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] Filmoteca de Catalunya
[mini-icon icon=”play-circle”] Documentary
[mini-icon icon=”certificate”] Premiere in Spain
The philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas merged the experience of the Holocaust with Talmudic wisdom and contemporary Western philosophy. The film presents Lévinas’ notion of “ethics as optics,” which draws a line between the biblical prohibition of images, a unique analysis of the human face and modern-day visual representation of morality.
The film comprises interviews with Lévinas, archival footage from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, and interviews with leading philosophers and artists: Jean-Luc Marion, Luc Dardenne, Michael Lévinas, Catherine Chalier, Daniel Epstein, Youssef Seddik, Hagi Kenaan and others.
With a presentation by Xavier Antich, aesthetics professor at Girona University and author of the essay A Philosophical Stroll through the Work of Emmanuel Lévinas, awarded with the Joan Fuster Prize.
