The Future of Reality

Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker and media researcher who has produced nearly 400 video essays exploring film and media. His award-winning Transformers: The Premake introduced the "desktop documentary" format. His work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Berlinale, and International Film Festival Rotterdam, as well as on websites such as those of the New York Times and Mubi. He is the Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at Università della Svizzera italiana. Flavia Mazzarino is currently a PhD candidate at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano under the supervision of Kevin B. Lee, with whom she has also taught courses on video essays, cinema and audiovisual futures, and film festival studies. Marine de Dardel is an architect, visual artist, and media scholar. She studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and creative coding at Zurich University of the Arts. She has co-authored and edited several books, including Portraits: Architectural Parables and Elegies.