Economies of Love is a monthly screening 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.

Rather than treating love as pure affect, films in this screening series approach it as a site of tension and transformation, where intimacy and connection are continuously mediated, contested, and redefined. Structured around thematic screenings, each pairing of feature-length narrative films and contemporary artists’ moving-image works invites audiences to rethink the shifting conditions of love, offering a fresh perspective on the evolving relationship between cinema and artists’ films.

Curated by Lukas Brasiskis, the series will feature work from filmmakers including Daniel Chew and Micaela Durand, Ren Ebel and Laida Lertxundi,  Barbara Hammer, Michael Haneke, Sky Hopinka, Derek Jarman, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Yorgos Lanthimos, Charmaine Poh, Shinji Shōmai, Agnès Varda, among many others.
 

Program

Part 1: Virtual Desires
March 20, 2025, 7pm
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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? Join us 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. 

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Program

Economies of Love. Part 3: Sensing Body
May 29, 2025, 7pm
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Economies of Love. Part 2: Care’s Terrains
April 10, 2025, 7pm

Economies of Love. Part 1: Virtual Desires
March 20, 2025, 7pm