Future of Cinema: From Locarno to San Francisco

​A conversation on how AI is reshaping cinema across form, authorship, memory, and production, bringing together filmmakers, artists, and researchers.

​AI discourse often divides between critics who reject the technology and advocates who emphasize its advances, particularly in film and media, where concerns about labor, authorship, ownership, and aesthetics meet promises of democratized cultural production and a new golden age of filmmaking.

​Bringing together filmmakers, artists, and researchers, this event opens space for a critical exchange on the tools, tensions, and creative possibilities shaping the future of film.

​The event includes a panel discussion moderated by Evelyn Kreutzer and Kevin B. Lee, followed by a Q&A session.

​This event is a continuation of the two-day conference about the Future of Cinema at UCLA last Fall, and is a collaboration with the Locarno Film Festival.

​More details to follow

​​​​Speakers
Evelyn Kreutzer (moderator), Postdoctoral Researcher and video essayist/filmmaker at the Università della Svizzera italiana
Kevin B. Lee (moderator), Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema

​More speakers to follow

​Program
6:00pm - Doors Open
6:30pm - Event starts (panel discussion)
7:15pm - Q&A
7:30pm - Networking & Drinks
8:30pm - Doors close

​Partners
​This Future of Cinema event is a collaboration between the Locarno Film Festival and Swissnex in San Francisco.

​About Swissnex in San Francisco
Swissnex in San Francisco is an initiative of the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). Our vision at Swissnex in San Francisco is to connect tomorrow by empowering the next generation of innovators to collaborate and create futures where the planet and society thrive.

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