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.
Kevin B. Lee (born 1975) is an American filmmaker, media artist, and critic. He is considered to be one of the most prominent and prolific contributors to the video essay genre. He holds the Locarno Film Festival Professorship for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at USI Università della Svizzera italiana.
