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Time Travel as Homecoming: A Journey for ETERNITY AND A DAY (Theo Angelopoulos, GR 1998)

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dc.creatorWu, Haotian
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-24T15:15:51Z
dc.date.available2025-01-24T15:15:51Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractTime is an essential issue in phenomenology and existential philosophy. In this article, I argue that Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα (ETERNITY AND A DAY, Theo Angelopoulos, GR 1998), the masterpiece of the understudied auteur, contributes to this scholarship by showing us two modes of time experience: depressive time and narrative time. In the light of Paul Ricœur’s, Matthew Ratcliffe’s, and Thomas Fuchs’s phenomenologies of time, I will show how the film delineates the phenomenological contours of depressive time and narrative time with the protagonist poet Alexandros’s last day sojourn in the world on the one hand and a series of his time travels on the other. Overall, I frame this new phenomenology of time with Angelopoulos’s cinematic thinking on home. I argue that depressive time underlies the time experience of homelessness while narrative time reorients us towards homecoming. Hence, Eternity and a Day not only contributes to the phenomenology of time but also constitutes an existential philosophy that addresses and redresses what Georg Lukács calls “transcendental homelessness”, the fundamental alienation of modern humanity.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.10:2024.2.5
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23508
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/400
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/25324
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
dc.subjectFilm and Phenomenologyen
dc.subjectTimeen
dc.subjectHomeen
dc.subjectPhenomenology and Psychopathologyen
dc.subjectExistential Philosophyen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personTheo Angelopoulos
dc.subject.workA JOURNEY FOR ETERNITY AND A DAY
dc.titleTime Travel as Homecoming: A Journey for ETERNITY AND A DAY (Theo Angelopoulos, GR 1998)en
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticle
local.coverpage2025-02-11T15:00:08
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/400
local.source.epage86
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage65
local.source.volume10
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/119013568
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55168

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