Film as an Unstable Event: A Phenomenology of Ambivalent Experience
NaUKMA Research Papers in Philosophy and Religious Studies May 31, 2026 Andrii Stakhiv
The article presents a phenomenological analysis of the ontological status of the cinematic work. It problematizes the traditional understanding of film as a fixed, stable object and substantiates its nature as an “unstable event” that is constituted exclusively at the moment of interaction between the technical apparatus and the viewer’s consciousness. The methodological basis of the study...