Here are some films that might be interesting if you consider Senghor and Césaire as philosophers.
Palcy, E., Aimé Césaire: une parole pour le XXIème siècle
2006.
Palcy, E., Aimé Césaire: A Voice for History, E. Palcy, Editor. 1994.
Lafond, J.-D., La manière nègre ou Aimé Césaire, chemin faisant
A State of Blackness: Aimé Césaire's Way. 1991
Cenevski, K., Leopold Sedar Sengor. 1975: Yugoslavia.
Bonan, J.-D., Un chant nègre, Leopold Sedar Senghor. 2006, Candela: France 52'.
Following films feature african philosophers
Swaim, B., Lumières Noires. 2007: France
Sesquin, J., Noirs, J. Sesquin and A. Ngatcha, Editors. 2006. 60'.
Schlüpmann, J., Un Bandung culturel : le congrès des écrivains et artistes noirs en 1956. 2006.
--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Nathan Andersen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Nathan Andersen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: philosophers on film?
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 9:56 PM
I'm looking to create a list of films (feature & documentary) that
feature philosophers centrally - and wonder if you all could help me.
I'm not necessarily interested in films that happen to mention that a
character was a philosopher or studied philosophy in college but more
in films that feature philosophers who are in some sense "practicing"
as philosophers in the film. E.g. "Lost in Translation" is a
borderline case because Scarlett Johanssen's character plays a
philosophy graduate but her philosophy background doesn't really play
a role in the story other than to suggest (as such references usually
do) that she is reasonably smart but doesn't know what to do with her
life ... but Another Woman fits since Marion is a philosophy professor
whose role as an academic and a philosopher plays a part in the story.
For documentaries I'm interested more in "real" documentaries
that
feature philosophers in a somewhat prominent way, and not so much just
footage of philosophers speaking (e.g. Foucault appears briefly as
part of a debate between him and Noam Chomsky in "Manufacturing
Consent" + there's obviously a lot of footage of philosophers talking
on youtube but what I want is something organized as a complete
documentary that features philosophers prominently).
A few examples:
Features: Wittgenstein, Another Woman
Docs: The Ister, Derrida, Zizek!, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, The
Examined Life (which was recently released and prompted my inquiry -
one thing that struck me when I saw it was that while it definitely
showed philosophers saying "philosophical" things it seemed to be
missing the element of making clear what it is that philosophers DO,
and what the examined life consists in, since from the perspective of
this film it seems to be that the examined life amounts to
philosophers making grand statements about what the world is like why
it's important to think and how we ought to act.)
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