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 sakriti opis