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Lukas Brasiskis is a Curator of Film and Video at e-flux. He is also a cocurator of the 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023–24). He received his PhD degree in Cinema Studies from New York University in 2022. His writings on moving image are widely published, and most recently he was the coeditor of Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe (Berghahn Press, 2024) and Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running (Yale University Press, 2022).
Launch of e-flux journal issue #142: Cosmos Cinema
e-flux Film Award presents: Special Screenings. Parts II & III
# 142
The concept of total cinema gives rise to the endeavor to recreate the world in cinema’s image. Yet even as many previously unattainable technological dreams become reality, none of them are sufficient to substitute for existing reality. In André Bazin’s view, cinema has an asymptotic relationship to reality. The medium might approach perfect realism but can never attain what he calls “the myth of total cinema”—in which the boundaries between the world and its representation dissolve into an authoritarian totality—precisely because reality itself is constantly changing.
e-flux Film Award Ceremony: Inaugural Edition
New York reception for 14th Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema
Double screening: Straub-Huillet and Atteyat Al-Abnoudy
Inhan Cho in conversation with Lukas Brasiskis
Mmabatho Thobejane and Christian Rossipal in conversation with Lukas Brasiskis
