Danse Macabre: Of the Dying and Death of Philosophers on Film {… and film as an (archival) afterlife of philosophy}

If philosophy’s age-old entanglement with death unravelled alongside modernity’s privatisation of dying, films featuring global philosophers appear to pick up this ancient ‘necromantic’ baton. By poetically compos(i)ting imaging-imaginings of real philosophers’ deaths and dying acts into a Danse Macabre this video essay expressively ponders philosophy’s entanglements with, and conditional/continual rebirths through, different media forms.