Pavlos kontos biography sample
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Introduction by Pavlos Kontos
Translation of the original text.
The texts that follow are the result of the workshop "Philosophy and cinema: when André Bazin and Andrey Zvyagintsev met by the river" that I offered at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece (CHS Greece) and were written by participants of the seminar.
The individual topics were chosen by the authors themselves and were discussed, on their own initiative, more or less during the seminar. For my part, I organized the material and, with the authors' official permission, made minor changes or adjustments and assembled the material into a whole.
The theme of the workshop was a paradox: what is the relationship between philosophy as a science and cinema as art and what do we mean today when we say that cinema is a sort of philosophy. This initial question became more concrete and tangible in two stages: (1) The workshop focused on André Bazin –whose contribution to film theory was decisive and is still today