What subtle links bound the philosophical movement to nihilism (a vision of the world which asserts that "If God doesn't exist then everything is permitted" according to Dostoyevsky) in the world of cinema ? To try to answer this question we gathered around Françoise Bonardel, three philosophers keen on cinema: Pacôme Thiellement, Sam Azulys and Thibault Isabel.
First, they will try to define the polysemous word nihilism.

"The psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud gathers young talented men to elaborate his theory about the human spirit. The outstanding Carl Gustav Jung is one of them, he is even the protégé of the master. But soon their relationship, intellectual and personal, deteriorates, and Jung breaks his relation with Freud. It is during that crisis period the Jung will begin his productive trip into the depth of the soul, elaborating his Psychology of the Depths, magnificently represented by his Red Book.

"From the idiot Christian talking to the birds, to the woodcock meaning the fool... the tale of mystic idiocy is written by pecking beaks on the water since the Agape is a river which carries meander the spirit of gift..." says Valérie Deshoulières.
Do you want to discover the iconographic transposition of Franciscan mystic in the works of  Giotto, the written works of G.K. Chesterton