Representations of Heideggerian Ontological Unity in Film: From Being to Image

Abstract

Research Abstract

The filmic text is a vast space where numerous philosophical concepts intertwine. Despite its relative recency in comparison to philosophy and its classical concepts, cinema serves as a profoundly deep medium. It possesses significant potential to carry these ideas and concepts, notwithstanding their abstract nature and theoretical tendencies. Cinema acts as a medium for a virtual world that narrates an image-based story, blending entertainment with a cathartic significance and the core intellectual message sought by the filmic presentation.

The filmic image encapsulates a journey searching for existence and its representations, navigating between the worlds of film and reality, and the precursors through which the filmic world attempts to approach physical existence via readings imbued with philosophical essence. Given the importance of this subject, the research is structured into four chapters:

·         Chapter One (Methodological Framework): Includes the research problem, importance, and objectives. The problem centers on the modalities through which the concept of "existence" is represented within the filmic medium.

·         Chapter Two (Theoretical Framework): Divided into two sections; the first explores the concept of existence in philosophy, while the second examines existence within the filmic world, investigating theoretical concepts and their applications.

·         Chapter Three: Details the research procedures and methodology.

·         Chapter Four: Focuses on the practical applications of the concept of existence in the filmic medium, presenting the results and conclusions, followed by a list of references.