6th Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference “Radical”

The 2026 Spiral Conference takes up this rich and ambivalent legacy, inviting reflections on what it means to be radical today: to break with the given, to accelerate intensification, to disrupt order, or to imagine new forms of social, political, and aesthetic life. Cinema, perhaps more than any other medium, stages the paradox of the radical: at once bound to apparatus, industry, and repetition, yet capable of rupture through montage, distortions or clarifications of perception, and the shock