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Kevin B. Lee (Hg.): The Future of Survival
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Kevin B. Lee (Hg.)

The Future of Survival

Broschur, 200 Seiten

Erscheint am 25.08.2025

How will cinema’s significance evolve?

For the last 120 years, cinema has held a dominant position as a creative and entertainment medium, a cultural institution, and an audiovisual language for understanding ourselves and our world. How will cinema’s significance evolve in the years to come? How does cinema imagine its own survival, especially in response to the environmental and societal crises that pose threats to the survival of humanity and the planet?


The Future of Cinema Conference Series is a conference held during the Locarno Film Festival, combining scholarly and academic workshops with public talks and events, with the 77th Locarno Film Festival Cinema Futures Conference focusing on The Future of Survival.


The projected publication series brings together the key contributions and discussions from the yearly conference as well as the audiovisual essays created during the workshop.

  • Filmwissenschaften
  • Gegenwartskunst
  • Bildtheorie
  • Ästhetik
  • Visuelle Kultur
  • Kunst
  • Künstliche Intelligenz
  • Kunsttheorie

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Kevin B. Lee

Kevin B. Lee holds the Locarno Film Festival Professorship for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at USI Università della Svizzera italiana. A filmmaker, media artist, and critic, he has produced over 360 video essays exploring film and media. His award-winning Transformers: The Premake introduced the “desktop documentary” format and was named one of the best documentaries of 2014 by Sight & Sound. His video essays Reading // Binging // Benning and Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox received the most mentions respectively in the 2017 and 2020 Sight & Sound video essay polls. For Bottled Songs, his collaborative project with Chloé Galibert-Laîné, he was awarded the 2018 Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Grant, the 2018 European Media Artist Platform Residency, and the 2019 Eurimages Lab Project Award at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In 2020 he co-curated the Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist with Will DiGravio and Cydnii Wilde Harris. Previously he was Professor of Crossmedia Publishing and co-director of the Masters Program in Artistic Research at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart.
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