Filmosophy or Film as Philosophy: An Essay in Possibility of Pholosophizing through Film

The relation between film and philosophy is not so easy that firstly seems. On one hand, philosophers discuss the nature of film, and, for example, ask: what makes a recording a work of art? And, on the other hand, some filmmakers attempt to utilize philosophical themes in their works, and, in a word, produce philosophical movie. But it not the whole story, and a third claim has been proposed in recent dedicates: that movies can philosophizing. This new approach usually is called “film as philosophy”, “film-philosophy”, or “filmosophy”. Several arguments have been advanced in defense of this hypothesis, and every defender of this claim have proposed their own explanations. In this essay, we try to show, from a different position, that movies can doing philosophy in six ways. That is, there are movies make an account of a philosophical point, movies aske some philosophical questions, movies make defense or denial to a philosophical position, movies propose a philosophical thesis, and movies remind us important things.