The Philosophy Film Club and Liberal Studies present a screening of Robert Bresson's Pickpocket (1959) and discussion led by Robert Pippin (U Chicago).

Generally considered one of Bresson's greatest works, Pickpocket tells an "incomparable story of crime and redemption ... A cornerstone of the career of this most economical and profoundly spiritual of filmmakers, Pickpocket is an elegantly crafted, tautly choreographed study of humanity in all its mischief and grace, the work of a director at the height of his powers" (Criterion Collection). 

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books and articles on German idealism and later German philosophy, including Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form (University of Chicago Press, 2020), Metaphysical Exile: On J. M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions (Oxford University Press, 2021), Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts (University of Chicago Press, 2021), and most recently, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024).