This is a note passed onto us by a young filmmaker who came across our film festival website:
"I am very happy to have found your festival. As far as my research went, you're the only film festival that focuses on life's greatest questions, which i think very few people dwell on. Also, i read in your page "the 1st edition", i hope that this festival will be a success and will continue years from now so as to create a community of filmmakers who stimulate minds and educate people."
We look forward to doing just that...
www.AtlantaThinkFestival.org
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Quote to Strike the Mood
I'd been looking for a quote that would embody the Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival, but I wanted to find it organically- you know, by the act of reading (not googling "great quote that will make everybody think I'm brilliant). As luck would have it, Ralph Ellison scripted a beautiful passage very early on in his work, "Juneteenth." I believe this passage really captures much of what I look for in the cinema, or any art form, and indeed in a great philosophical film. It goes...
Man is born to act, to make mistakes, and to die. This all men know. But in the graceful acceptance of his fate, and in his protracted and creative dying, man builds his monument, he structures and makes manifest his accusation of the universe. He secures his earthly gains, sets the course of the ever-receding future and makes art of his yearning.
Thank you Mr. Ellison, I do believe I am ready to throw a Philosophy Film Festival now.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Call For Entries - April 1st Deadline
No Entry Fees for Earlybird Deadline: April 1st, 2009!
Submit Now!
The Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival is dedicated to philosophy films that exemplify the pursuit of knowledge through the moving image. Films that guide us through the questions and speak to the human condition.
Film is Philosophy expressed through the medium of image- realized through light, shadow, and sound.
The Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival is currently accepting short film submissions in all genres and categories from professional and student filmmakers from around the world.
To submit your film or video, please see visit www.AtlantaThinkFestival.org
Submit Now!
The Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival is dedicated to philosophy films that exemplify the pursuit of knowledge through the moving image. Films that guide us through the questions and speak to the human condition.
Film is Philosophy expressed through the medium of image- realized through light, shadow, and sound.
The Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival is currently accepting short film submissions in all genres and categories from professional and student filmmakers from around the world.
To submit your film or video, please see visit www.AtlantaThinkFestival.org
Mission Statement
Films have been often characterized as being essays on the human condition. In an essay, one should gather insights about the philosophy that guides the questions and attitudes of the work. Films should be no different. Film is Philosophy expressed through the medium of image- realized through light and sound. Presented and structured in such a way as to foster debate in the public and private forum.
The Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival welcomes all those films using the image median to question how we think and how we interact with the world. Films that question what it is to exist. What it is to know. What it is to love. What it means to be ethical and objective. What it is to experience. What it is to…
We welcome films aware of their role as provocateur in a world where answers are more readily available than questions. Films that use dialogue, story, image, style, tone and theme to confront our universal values and confront how we understand our experiences. Films that use ideas as a laboratory to explore the human condition.
In both style and content, we welcome all films that embark on the difficult and rewarding journey towards knowledge and better understanding.
The Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival welcomes all those films using the image median to question how we think and how we interact with the world. Films that question what it is to exist. What it is to know. What it is to love. What it means to be ethical and objective. What it is to experience. What it is to…
We welcome films aware of their role as provocateur in a world where answers are more readily available than questions. Films that use dialogue, story, image, style, tone and theme to confront our universal values and confront how we understand our experiences. Films that use ideas as a laboratory to explore the human condition.
In both style and content, we welcome all films that embark on the difficult and rewarding journey towards knowledge and better understanding.
The Cinema of Philosophy
The Cinema of Philosophy presents the major philosophical questions and ideas to a mass audience though the medium of film and video. Using the Moving Image art form to question our assumptions and rationalizations about what we experience in our everyday lives. Filmmakers aren't moved to create cinema to define reality, but rather to question it.
Probing into even our basic notions of Life, God, and Human Nature inevitably lead to richer, more meaningful understandings of our attitudes, our Philosophies, and our place in the world. In the discipline of cinematography, it is the angle at which you approach your characters and ultimately your story that is as important as anything. Philosophy approaches questions and ideas in ways very few other disciplines can.
The Cinema of Philosophy delves into all that we accept, what we are mystified by, what we are scared of, what we overlook, what we believe in, what we think we know. Philosophy Films exemplify this exploration.
The Cinema of Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Federico Fellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Roy Anderson, Francois Truffaut, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Stan Brackage, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Luis Bunuel, Chris Marker, Wim Wenders and many others.
Probing into even our basic notions of Life, God, and Human Nature inevitably lead to richer, more meaningful understandings of our attitudes, our Philosophies, and our place in the world. In the discipline of cinematography, it is the angle at which you approach your characters and ultimately your story that is as important as anything. Philosophy approaches questions and ideas in ways very few other disciplines can.
The Cinema of Philosophy delves into all that we accept, what we are mystified by, what we are scared of, what we overlook, what we believe in, what we think we know. Philosophy Films exemplify this exploration.
The Cinema of Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Federico Fellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Roy Anderson, Francois Truffaut, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Stan Brackage, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Luis Bunuel, Chris Marker, Wim Wenders and many others.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
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