Never Ending Wonder
April 27, 2025 - 9:00AM CST USA
Never Ending Wonder is a lyrical and rigorous exploration of the sensorial, philosophical, and affective territories of contemporary cinema. With a keen eye for nuance and a broad intellectual foundation, Julio Bezerra draws connections between film and phenomenology, weaving together the thought of Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Bazin, and Ayfre with the work of filmmakers such as Claire Denis, Pedro Costa, Tsai Ming-liang, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. This is not a conventional work of film theory. Rather, it is an evocative meditation on cinema’s capacity to transform perception, dissolve dualisms, and bring forth new modes of being in the world. Moving beyond narrative and representation, Bezerra engages with a cinema of atmosphere, embodiment, and affect—a cinema that touches, disorients, and embraces, inviting the viewer into an experience that is both intimate and open-ended. Written with poetic clarity and philosophical depth, Never Ending Wonder invites us to reimagine how we watch, think, and feel cinema. It speaks not only to scholars and cinephiles but to all who believe in the power of film to challenge, console, and awaken. This is a passionate, personal, and intellectually generous inquiry into a cinema that does not aim to explain the world, but to encounter it, feel it, and remain in awe of its infinite becoming.