About The Filmanalytic Salon
Not just a film club.
A salon built around film.
We are not trying to help people differentiate a "good" film from a "bad" film. We are trying to build the temporal and spatial contexts under which a film can be genuinely related to, and thought about — between any given "Self," and "Other."
The Idea
We watch together, we think together — with people who were trained to notice the idiosyncratic of everyday living.
An evening begins with a screening: a full film, or a set of scenes chosen from said film, will be screened as the conversation starter. Then, invited panelists from separate disciplines will engage in a discussion; and the audience will have the chance to join in. There is wine, there is food, and a chance to engage in a discussion with other likeminded cinephiles.
It is closer to a European literary salon, or an evening in a historic home, than to a lecture hall, or a cinema. Small by design — the intimacy is the point, as it will lend itself to more engaging discussions about each film.
The series is launching now. Our inaugural evening is still being assembled, which means the earliest members of this community will help shape what it will become.
Cinema, seen from many intellectual "camera angles."
- Psychology & Psychoanalysis
- What the film knows about the unconscious, desire, resistances and defenses.
- Philosophy
- The questions exploring different ideologies posed by the film.
- Literature
- Structure, tone, adaptation, and explored through the idiosyncratic use of language.
- Politics & History
- The world the film was made in, and the world it imagined. Its spatial and temporal context as it relates to the possible interpretation the moviegoer will have of the film.
- Art & Architecture
- Composition, colour, space, and how a room can carry meaning.
- Music & Sound
- What we hear before we understand it.
- Science
- Perception, attention, and the strange machinery of watching.
- Filmmaking
- The cinematographic, and directorial decisions from screenplay to the final cut of the editing process.
