How can a film festival thrive both online and offline, all year round? Can the magic of Locarno's Piazza Grande be transmitted to a geographically distant audience beyond 11 days in August? How can a festival be a space for a society where everyone has the tools for using cinema as an everyday language?  The Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts explores the continuous changes occurring within cinema in relation to technological and societal transformation. This chair produces valuable insights for the Festival’s innovation and development through a range of activities including research, teaching, publishing and curation. 

Initiater, presenter and curator of The Cinema Futures Conference “Future of Survival”

Masterclass for the Documentary Summer School/ Masters Program

Curator, Tsai Ming-liang: Moving Portraits, Il Rivellino Gallery. Photos

Speaker for the Long Night of Dreaming about the Future of Intelligence, sponsored by Università della Svizzera italiana and Mercator. 

Convening of Scientific Advisory Board for Locarno Futures, planned for 2024

Presentation of works by USI Masters students from the seminars "Video Essays for Ecocinema" and "Video Essay for Communication Culture and Society", Scuola senza frontiere program, PalaCinema

Masterclass on Video Essay as Ecocriticism (with Silvia Cipelletti), USI Documentary Summer School, Swiss Study Foundation and Locarno Critics Academy

Masterclass with Hito Steyerl, Locarno Critics Academy and BaseCamp Academy

Locarno 75

Interviews

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2024 #5

The Films of Artificial Intelligence. Interview with LaRegione. Original version in Italian 

The Film Comment Podcast: The Future of Intelligence with Kevin B. Lee

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2023 #7

Futurespectives: The Future of Cinema, Culture and Society

The Film Comment Podcast: The Future of Attention with Kevin B. Lee