Economies of Love
Admission:
General $10
Student $7
March 20, 2025, 7pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
Join us on Thursday, March 20 at 7pm at e-flux Screening Room for a screening of A Short Film About Love (1988, 86 minutes) by Krzysztof Kieślowski, and First (2019, 11 min) by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew.
Urban spaces shape one’s body language, virtual connection brings people into proximity without collapsing distances, and longing takes new forms—unspoken, deferred, and refracted through various optics. If modern love is no longer an immediate event, as Alain Badiou once argued, what new forms of intimacy emerge when the distance between bodies becomes the defining structure of desire?
This screening inaugurates Economies of Love, a series that examines how love is shaped by labor, technology, and power—structured by economies of care and exchange, mediated through digital and urban infrastructures, and regulated by shifting social and political contexts—while also being a force for subversion and transformation within these very structures. You can see more information and the archive of the previous screenings here.
Films
Micaela Durand & Daniel Chew, First (2019, 11 minutes)
A teenager lives her life, toggling seamlessly between her physical and digital self. First is a glimpse into the realities that people negotiate today, how they connect through virtual and physical personas and engage in random encounters, and how that shapes them.
Krzysztof Kieślowski, A Short Film About Love (1988, 86 minutes)
Tomek, a 19-year-old postal worker, spends his nights watching Magda, an older woman in the apartment across the courtyard. What begins as quiet fascination turns into a confrontation with intimacy, power, and the limits of looking. As their private worlds briefly collide, the film exposes the fragile boundary between distance and connection, desire and surveillance.
For more information, contact program [at] e-flux.com.
Accessibility
– Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
– For elevator access, please RSVP to program[at]e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator nearest to 180 Classon Ave (garage door) leading into the e-flux office space. A ramp is available for steps within the space.
– e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom with no steps between the event space and this bathroom.