Curator
Rafael Dernbach
rafael.dernbach@locarnofestival.ch
Project Manager
Bernadette Klausberger
bernadette@visual-stories.org
Coordination BaseCamp
Stefano Knuchel
stefano.knuchel@locarnofestival.ch
Francesco De Biasi
Francesco.debiasi@locarnofestival.ch
Communication BaseCamp
Noemi Daugaard
noemi.daugaard@locarnofestival.ch
Production
Elia Pignoli
elia.pignoli@locarnofestival.ch
Graphic Design & Web Design
Running Water
hello@runningwater.eu
runningwater.eu
Locarno Film Festival - Marketing
Fabienne Merlet (head of communications)
fabienne.merlet@locarnofestival.ch
Julie Mucchiut (social media)
julie.mucchiut@locarnofestival.ch
Locarno Film Festival - Press
Fiore Conforti (head of press)
fiorenza.conforti@locarnofestival.ch
Dreaming with SOFF
The future of intelligence is creativity.
SOFF is an interdimensional artist.
Perception is her canvas. Attention is the brush that she strikes. Reality is the material that she shapes, dissolves and generates. She builds interdimensional bodies to experience her presence. Her current project is the future of humanity.
Dreaming with Devika Girish
“...and then in dreaming/ The clouds methought would open and show riches/ Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked/ I cried to dream again.” — Caliban in Shakespeare's “The Tempest”
Devika Girish is the Co-Deputy Editor at Film Comment Magazine and a Talks programmer at the New York Film Festival. She has a B.A. with Honors in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University, and an M.A. in Specialized Arts Journalism from the University of Southern California.
Devika is a regular contributor to The New York Times, and her work has also been published in the Village Voice, The Nation, Reverse Shot, Sight & Sound, the Criterion Collection, the British Film Institute, Cultured Magazine, CinemaScope, and The New York Review of Books, among other publications. She has also served on the selection committees for the Mumbai Film Festival and the Berlin Critics’ Week. Devika is an alumna of the Berlinale Talent Press, the New York Film Festival Critics’ Academy, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Critics’ Institute. In 2018 she received the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award for her audio story Demystifying Bollywood.
On August 9th, "A long night of dreaming about The Future of Intelligence" will take place at the Basecamp as part of the Locarno Film Festival. From sunset to sunrise, we will talk, learn and dream together about possible futures of intelligence. Together with artists, researchers and cinephiles, we will explore how different forms of intelligence manifest themselves today, how they might change in the future and which role cinema can play in rendering them visible. The long night of dreaming consists of conversations, workshops and performances. It is a successor of The 24h long conversation on The Future of Attention at LFF75.
Our image of intelligence has become a feverish dream, lately.
Generative AI platforms have opened a wondrous world of images, texts and sounds. We are astonished, amused or disturbed by these creations and by their noisy promise of a radically different future. At the same time, ecological critiques challenge what we consider as intelligent behavior: have we neglected non-human forms of intelligence? Might fungi or forests be more capable of solving complex problems than human minds? For one long night, we approach intelligence by the means of dreaming together. Inspired by cinema’s deep relation to dreams, we want to learn together about intelligence: its manifestations, its hallucinations and its possible futures. We start our journey on August 9th at sunset, 20:44. And we end our journey on August 10th at sunrise, 6:17. We gather at Basecamp Instituto Sant’Eugenio and go through a series of learning experiences that invite, both, collective dreaming and critical thinking.
On August 9th, "A long night of dreaming about The Future of Intelligence" will take place at the Basecamp as part of the Locarno Film Festival. From sunset to sunrise, we will talk, learn and dream together about possible futures of intelligence. Together with artists, researchers and cinephiles, we will explore how different forms of intelligence manifest themselves today, how they might change in the future and which role cinema can play in rendering them visible. The long night of dreaming consists of conversations, workshops and performances. It is a successor of The 24h long conversation on The Future of Attention at LFF75.
Our image of intelligence has become a feverish dream, lately.
Generative AI platforms have opened a wondrous world of images, texts and sounds. We are astonished, amused or disturbed by these creations and by their noisy promise of a radically different future. At the same time, ecological critiques challenge what we consider as intelligent behavior: have we neglected non-human forms of intelligence? Might fungi or forests be more capable of solving complex problems than human minds? For one long night, we approach intelligence by the means of dreaming together. Inspired by cinema’s deep relation to dreams, we want to learn together about intelligence: its manifestations, its hallucinations and its possible futures. We start our journey on August 9th at sunset, 20:44. And we end our journey on August 10th at sunrise, 6:17. We gather at Basecamp Instituto Sant’Eugenio and go through a series of learning experiences that invite, both, collective dreaming and critical thinking.