Memory of man is fragmented sometimes. As the proverb "to err is human…. "the following, less famous since less sympathetic, is: "to persevere is devilish" (Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum) and refers to Evil... The 20th century was the most deadly in all the history of mankind. The two major ideologies of this century, and directly responsible for this abomination, are called Nazism and Communism. What common feature do we find in these two totalitarian regimes ? A virulent atheism.

In 1782, Germany recognized in Wilhelmsbad, the freemasonry called "rectified" created by the impulse of Jean-Baptiste Willermoz. The same year the new collection of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin was published: « The natural Board of links which unite God, man and the universe  ».
They know each other: indeed, seven years before, Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin lived in Lyon in Jean-Baptiste Willermoz's place, to write « Des erreurs et de la vérité, ou les hommes rappelés au principe universel »…

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.