Name: Film Screening: Waking Life (2001)
Start: 2025-11-20T17:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-20T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Filmcasino

Film Screening: Waking Life (2001)

Knowledge in Crisis is a research project supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under the Clusters of Excellence programme (10.55776/COE3). We're a collaboration between the University of Graz, the University of Salzburg, and the University of Vienna, led by Central European University.

Knowledge in Crisis

For World Philosophy Day we'll watch the adult animated surrealist drama written and directed by Richard Linklater.

Filmcasino

Join us for this year’s World Philosophy Day!We’re hosting a free screening at Filmcasino, followed by a discussion on the movie’s many pressing philosophical questions. Moderation by philosophers Alex Horne and Camilo Martinez.Synopsis:Dreams. What are they? An escape from reality or reality itself?Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.The film will be in English with German subtitles.This screening is sponsored by the <a href="https://www.knowledgeincrisis.com/" title="https://www.knowledgeincrisis.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Knowledge in Crisis project</a>, which is a Cluster of Excellence supported by the Austrian Science Fund (<a href="https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-radar/10.55776/COE3" title="https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-radar/10.55776/COE3" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">10.55776/COE3</a>).

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