AFTERLIVES
Documentary Feature by Kevin B. Lee
D 2025 | 88 min | DCP | 5.1 | English / German
With Morehshin Allahyari, Nava Zarabian, Anne Speckhard
World Premiere: doclisboa 2025
International Premiere: BFI London 2025
Director of Photography: Ginan Seidl
Editor & Script Editor: Janina Herhoffer
Music: Tadklimp, Maya Shenfeld
Sound Recording: Aline Bonvin
Sound Design: Laszlo Umbreit
Sound Mix: Rémi Gérard
Produced by Caroline Kirberg for pong film
Coproduced by Beata Saboova and Vincent Metzinger with Naoko Films and Pivonka Production
Funded by Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien BKM, Eurimages Lab Project Award, Field of Vision, CNAP, CCA, Belgian Tax Shelter
Synopsis
In his first feature-length desktop documentary for cinema, filmmaker Kevin B. Lee delves into the historical traces of extremist propaganda and the efforts of those resisting its violent impacts. 'Afterlives' explores how to confront the violence encoded in this media, reaching beyond its toxic effects to engage power structures spanning from the colonial past to the digital age. Moving between virtual and physical environments, the film encounters an artist, an activist and a researcher, who each use the legacy of violent extremism to create new images and narratives with new possibilities for the future.
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