Note on the Cover Illustration Preface   Nathan Andersen Notes on Contributors Introduction   Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Giannis Stamatellos

1 Cut Away Excess and Straighten the Crooked: The Simplicity of Contemplative Cinema in the Light of Plotinus' Philosophy   Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

2 The One in Photogénie : Plotinus and Jean Epstein   Steve Choe

3 Is the Universe a Work of Art that We Can Perceive in a Film?   Tony Partridge

4 Heracles, Hylas, and the Uses of Reflection   Stephen R.L. Clark

5 Beyond the Moving Images: A Plotinian Reading of The Truman Show   Giannis Stamatellos

6 Being as Illumination of the One and Its Manifestation through Cinematic Images   Sebastian F. Moro Tornese

7 Moving Image and Conversion: A Neo-Platonic Film Theory   Vincenzo Lomuscio

8 Character, Spectator, Film: On Cinema as a Plotinian Hierarchy   Enrico Terrone

9 Plotinus and Tarkovsky on Experience and the Transparency of Reality   Daniel Regnier

10 Images of a Moving Self: Plotinus and Bruce Nauman   Panayiota Vassilopoulou

11 Avoiding the Dead Thing Decorated. Neoplatonism and Daniel Martin : Towards a Poetics of Film?   Michelle Phillips Buchberger

12 The Mystical and the Beautiful: The Construction of a Plotinian Aesthetics of Film   Cameron Barrows Filmography Index