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b'Season 10 of the Cinematologists podcast kicks off with a double bill of episodes from the Film-Philosophy Conference held at the University of Brighton in July. Hosted by our very own Dario Llinares the event which boasted an internationally renowned line-up of keynotes and delegates.\\xa0\\nBoth episodes are made up of interviews we managed to grab as the conference progressed and, we hope gives you a sense of the eclectic mix of themes, methodologies and films that were discussed. Neil and Dario are joined on interviewing duties by Kat Zabecka, who studies at the University of Edinburgh.\\nShownotes\\n0.0 Introduction - Dario and Neil Discuss the build-up to the conference.\\n8:45 Janet Harbord (with Dario) Janet\'s keynote speech entitled\\xa0Film as a Training for Neurotypical life\\xa0explores gesture in medical film, focusing on the autistic gesture as a practice that resists interpretation through conventional means, troubling the terms of intention and agency.\\n26:40 Matt Holtmeier (with Neil) Matt discusses the video essay he screened at the conference - Vital Coasts, Mortal Oceans: The Pearl Button as Media Environmental Philosophy - interweaving Chilean philosophers Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, and Ricardo Rozzi, with Patricio Guzman\\u2019s cosomovisions in order to highlight the complex ecological insights at the intersection of indigenous thought and film form.\\n37:00 Savina Petkova (with Kat) Savina talks about her paper\\xa0Real Metaphors. Animals in the Films of Yorgos Lanthimos\\xa0and the role of animetaphors,\\xa0Akira Lippit\\u2019s eloquent way of describing a non-anthropocentric way to look at animals and animal transformations.\\n50:42 Murray Pomerance (with Dario) Returning to The Cinematologists Murray outlines The Sound of Silence and his formulation of the "screaming silence" created by the sound design in the famous shower scene in Hitchcock\'s psycho.\\n01:10:57 Mila Zuo (with Kat). Mila\'s paper, entitled\\xa0The Girlfriend Experience: Virtual Beauty and Love in Post-Cinematic Times,\\xa0explores the ways\\xa0new media technologies (and their representations) enable a fetishistic disavowal in virtual displays of feminine beauty and unfaithful love.\\n01:31:00 Colin Heber-Percy (with Dario) Under the Skin offers fruitful material for philosophical analysis and Colin\'s analysis -\\xa0"The Flesh is Weak." Empathy and becoming human in Jonathan Glazer\'s Under the Skin - analyses the film\'s \\u201cmechanics\\u201d of illusion, its deconstruction of cinema itself, reversing the gaze of the viewer: this is a film that observes us.\\n01:44:20\\xa0Lina Jurdeczka (with Neil). Lina\'s work -\\xa0Untimely Cinephilia and Spectral Images in Phoenix and Ida - examines\\xa0films that are set in cultural climates that seek to move on from the trauma of the Holocaust: Germany in 1945 and Poland in 1961. Yet formally their film-historical imaginaries emphasise the co-existence of past and present, dismantling the possibility of closure.\\nAlso listen on:\\niTunes:\\xa0https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-cinematologists-podcast/id981479854?mt=2\\nWebsite:\\xa0www.cinematologists.com\\nPlayerFM:\\xa0https://player.fm/series/series-2416725\\nSpotify:\\xa0https://open.spotify.com/show/0RjNz8XDkLdbKZuj9Pktyh\\nPatreon:\\xa0https://www.patreon.com/cinematologists'