The Evidence of Film and the Presence of the World: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Cinematic Ontology (original) (raw)

The paper explores Jean-Luc Nancy's cinematic ontology by examining how contemporary cinema, particularly as reflected in the works of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, reinterprets and engages with the concept of 'presence'. It critiques traditional views of film that emphasize stability of meaning and instead posits a cinema that embraces the tension between presence and re-presentation, ultimately revealing a phenomenological understanding of the world as a space of possibilities rather than fixed meanings.