Revealing the World Through Cinema: The Films of Terrence Malick

Cinema has the power to play with images, narrative and time in a way unique among art forms. In this salon, Professor LaValle Norman will explore the cinematic artistry of Terrence Malick, who has directed 9 films in the last 45 years, including such classics as Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line. Malick is fascinated by questions of belief, and his films deal with the fundamental questions of meaning in life. And he does so in a way unique to his art form. His interest in fundamental questions culminated in his two most recent films explicitly about Christian faith: the 2019 biography of the WWII Austrian conscientious objector Blessed Franz Jäggerstätter (A Hidden Life) and his forthcoming film about the Gospels, The Way of the Wind. Prof. LaValle Norman will overview and analyze all of Malick's films at the intersection of art and faith.

This salon follows a film viewing of Malick's 2011 film The Tree of Life on Wednesday May 11, which all are encouraged to attend.

Drinks and snacks served at 5:15 p.m., with lecture and discussion to follow.

Speaker

Dawn LaValle Norman is a classicist who works on the history of the philosophical dialogues and is currently writing a book on how women's voices are used in dialogues from Plato to Augustine. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she is a Senior Research Fellow at Australian Catholic University.

Image from here.