What can an artwork do? This is the question that this course will pose, if not definitively answer. Three key terms of common concern to philosophy, film, and art will serve as our guide: aesthetics, subjectivity, and history. Each term suggests new ways of reformulating the question, such as: How can artworks reconfigure the fundamental conditions of possibility of experience? How do they alter the unconscious? How do they, not just record or narrate history, but redeem the past and open up new futures? We will explore these ideas through close reading of theoretical texts ranging from Kant to Rizvana Bradley and analyze a range of moving image artworks works ranging from Hitchcock classics to avant-garde/experimentalfilm to digital media art.