By Junyu Ke

October 13, 2026 

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Moderated by Junyu Ke. Recorded online, September 28, 2026, as part of Day 2 of Emerging Visions | Western University Film Festival.

 

The day after we screened his desktop documentary Afterlives (2025), Kevin B. Lee — Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at USI — asks what remains of cinema's authority as evidence in the age of generative AI. The conversation that follows moves from the cost of leaving the desktop to what it means to find "another way to care," and closes with questions from the audience.

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​Watch the recording below. 

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