Since 2022, I serve as the Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts at the Università della Svizzera italiana(USI).

The role examines how cinema evolves across changing technological, cultural, and institutional ecologies, expanding from theatrical contexts into streaming platforms, social networks, surveillance culture, visual art, and artificial intelligence.

This work approaches cinema not as a fixed form, but as a living field of audiovisual practices shaped by the conditions of their circulation and reception. A central focus is the video essay as a mode of research, critique, and creative expression.

The SNSF-funded project Video Essays: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies investigates how video essays produce and transmit knowledge through embodied memory, platform infrastructures, and situated acts of viewing and making.

In this context, the video essay becomes not only a method of analysis but a way of participating in and shaping the contemporary audiovisual landscape.

This inquiry also engages with the transformations brought by artificial intelligence. My concept of generative archival practice proposes how machine learning systems reorganize cultural memory by filtering, synthesizing, and reactivating images that are otherwise inaccessible or erased.

This framework places cinema within a broader question of how new technologies will preserve, rewrite, and re-imagine our reality.Taken together, these threads point toward a future of cinema defined by intermediality, critical experimentation, and new forms of shared attention.