The 2005 Philosophy Video Festival

[haselhurst]

The 2005 Philosophy Video Festival

We must get organised and enter something - it will be fun and a great challenge (and potential to marker our work / ideas).
Geoff
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Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005
From: "Ken Knisely" (ken@nodogs.org)
Subject: 2005 Philosophy Video Festival
To: (PHILOSOP@louisiana.edu)

Annual Effort Begins To Find The Best Philosophy Video From High School and University Producers
The 2005 Philosophy Video Festival will be held this December in the City of New York at the Eastern Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. The festival features contests to find the most profound philosophical videos produced by high school and college students this year. A new category for graduate philosophy students has also been added for this year’s festival.

This year’s theme is “The Ethics of Consumption.” Entries for the high school and college divisions must be between one second and four minutes in length, and be philosophical in nature. Entries must be received by December 3rd, 2005, and will be judged by a panel of philosophers and media producers.

As part of the 2005 Philosophy Video Festival, a new category has been established: the Wittgenstein Prize, or “Witty”, which will be awarded to the best philosophical video produced by a graduate student that comments on an edition of the philosophy television series No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed.

The best philosophical video created by graduate student producers will be included in the series, which is nationally broadcast across the United States and locally in a number of media markets and college campuses.

“We want to inspire tomorrow’s professional philosophers to enrich their imaginations with the power of video," said Ken Knisely, executive producer of NDOPA. “Video is a new and still developing philosophical medium which we believe holds the promise of transforming the ways we think.”

“Video won’t simply replace print, of course. But unless it authentically embraces new technologies of signal, it’s hard to imagine how philosophy will be able to survive and flourish.”

Entries for all of the contests will be accepted from June 1 to December 3, 2005. The winners will be formally announced at the APA Eastern Division Meeting the last week of December.

The winner of the 2005 Witty will receive a prize of $500.00. Cash prizes will be also awarded to the top videos in the high school and college divisions.

Rules and details will be on the web starting April 16, 2005, at;
(http://www.nodogs.org/PhilVidFest.html)

For more information, e-mail: (PhilVidFest@nodogs.org)

The 2005 Philosophy Video Festival is sponsored by the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy, by the North American High School Philosophers Association (NAHSPA), and by Milk Bottle Productions, Inc.

[Chris Wright]

Sounds like a great idea. Here's my screen-play:
Camera on a wide view of calm water, out at sea. Calm, classical music of some kind. Sound suddenly interrupted, made ugly, by the starting of a boat engine, which gets louder and louder, and starts to make ripples in the water. Music rises in tempo and volume to keep up, begins a process of each trying to out-drone the other, music becoming more and more ugly, untuneful. Then someone falls in the water, wearing an advertising board that reads"[insert Philippe's marketed summary of WSM here]", and man drowns, the boat keeps droning, but the music laments.

[robertkernodle]

Or . . . . . .

Camera on wide view of open water--- music by Jean Michel Jare.

Fast time-lapse inward zoom to a single leaf with a single drop of water dripping in slow-motion onto the calm pool.

Circular ripples move outward. Camera reverse zooms at mid-tempo, then faster--- past the earth, past the solar system, to a Hubble-telescope view of a galactic mega-cluster.

Then flash to a man contemplating the circular rippling pool.

TITLE: A Sidartha Moment


Robert