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Kevin B. Lee (ed.), Marine de Dardel (ed.), ...: The Future of Reality
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Kevin B. Lee (ed.), Flavia Mazzarino (ed.), Marine de Dardel (ed.)

The Future of Reality

Softcover, 320 pages

Date of publication: 07.08.2026

PDF, 320 pages

Date of publication: 07.08.2026

Reality, No More?

What counts as reality when images can be generated, manipulated, and circulated with unprecedented ease? The Future of Reality asks filmmakers and scholars to respond to a contemporary reality framed and filtered by algorithms and synthetic media. Questioning what other possibilities for reality can be found, the volume moves across nonfiction storytelling, generative and algorithmic media, sensing bodies and ecologies, and the politics of memory and a wide range of forms: essays, conversations, audiovisual works, and experimental interventions.

With contributions by Jiří Anger, Adriano Aprà, Johannes Binotto, Silvia Cipelletti, Marine de Dardel, Donatella Della Ratta and The Void, Behrang Garakani, Devika Girish, Miguel Gomes, Chiara Grizzaffi, Veronika Hanáková, Alexandre Koberidze, Florian Krautkrämer, Evelyn Kreutzer, Occitane Lacurie, Alisa Lebow, Kevin B. Lee, Angelika Lepper, Sasha Litvintseva, Flavia Mazzarino, Volker Pantenburg, Igor Simić, Antonio Somaini, The Black Cube and Beny Wagner.

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Marine de Dardel

is an architect, visual artist, and media scholar. She studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and creative coding at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). She is currently a doctoral research member in the research project “The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies,” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF 2024–2027) in collaboration with Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) and Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI). Her research and practice focus on the semiotics of the grotesque body and the future of corporeality according to emergent VR and generative AI technologies. She has taught international workshops experimenting with architectural language and computational narratives. She has co-authored and edited several books, including Portraits: Architectural Parables (2022), de la Verticalité / Zur Vertikalität (2024), and Elegies (2024); her work has been published in journals including Cartha, trans, Scroope, and the NECSUS Journal; and her work was screened at the Locarno Film Festival.

Kevin B. Lee

Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker and media researcher who has produced nearly 400 video essays exploring film and media. His award-win- ning Transformers: The Premake introduced the “desktop documen- tary” 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 Lo- carno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Au- diovisual Arts at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). He co-leads the Swiss National Science Foundation research project “The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies.”
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Flavia Mazzarino

Flavia Mazzarino obtained her Master's degree in Visual Arts at the Iuav University in Venice and HfG in Karlsruhe with a thesis on Harun Farocki’s observational films. She 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. Flavia organized the Future of Reality conference at the Locarno Film Festival in 2025. She is involved in curatorial projects focused on experimental and avant-garde cinema, having curated programs featuring filmmakers such as Robert Beavers, Morgan Fisher, and Helga Fanderl. Since 2021, she has been collaborating with Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari, producing his last four films, including A Fidai Film, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Visions du Réel 2024, and With Hasan in Gaza, which has been nominated at the European Film Awards.
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