LUKAS BRASISKIS

PRESENTATIONS, TALKS, AND PODCASTS

Film as Curatorial Tool, a public conversation between e-flux Curator of Film and Video Lukas Brasiskis, e-flux Architecture Assistant Editor Christina Moushoul, and curators Francesco Garutti and Irene Chin from the Canadian Centre for Architecture. e-flux Screening Room, October 5, 2024. 

Shana Moulton: In Search of Meaning, a conversation between Shana Moulton and e-flux Curator of Film and Video Lukas Brasiskis. e-flux Podcast, September 12, 2024.

Embodied Film: Aesthetics of Intimacy as Forms of Resistance, a keynote lecture at the symposium "View from A Body" organized by Buxton Contemporary and The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia, August 8, 2024.

Flickers of Utopia: A Conversation Basim Magdy, e-flux, New York, USA, July 8, 2024.

Emotion Pictures: A Conversation With Agnieszka Polska, e-flux, New York, USA, June 10, 2024.

Melancholies of Extinction, a public conversation between Lukas Brasiskis and Jorge Jácome. Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto, Portugal, December 11, 2022.

Erika Balsom in conversation with Lukas Brasiskis on Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, e-flux Podcast, New York, USA, December 1, 2022.

Inhan Cho in conversation with Lukas Brasiskis on EXiS 2022 in Seoul, e-flux Film, August 18, 2022.

Eco-Cooperations Workshop, participation in the discussion connecting curatorial, artistic, and academic perspectives on ecological thinking. Documenta Institute, Kassel, Germany, July 21–22, 2022.

Alternatives to Anthropocene Visuality: Artists’ Films After Nature, a talk at the international conference "Reducing Climate," ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Germany, June 9, 2022.

On History of Ukrainian Cinema, participation in the discussion on Ukrainian cinema and video art aired on the Film Comment Magazine Podcast, New York, USA, March 15, 2022.

Elemental Critique in East-Central European Video Art, a paper presented at the international film studies conference "Visible Evidence," panel: "Environmental Narratives," DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany, December 16, 2021.

Reversed Point of View: Human and the Anthropo(s)cene in Baltic Documentaries, a paper presented in the panel "Cinema Beyond the Anthropocene" at the 52nd Annual ASEEES Convention, Boston, USA, November 14, 2020.

Outside the Timeline of Progress: Techno-Material Traces, Post-Human Landscapes, and The New Social, participation in an online discussion with Misho Antadze, Thirza Cuthand, Heather Davis, Su Yu Hsin, and Arjuna Neuman, moderated by Lukas Brasiskis. e-flux, November 5, 2020.

Cinema as Poetry, Images as History, a talk on Jonas Mekas’ Diary Films, Rupert Art and Education Center, Vilnius, Lithuania, July 11, 2019.

From Water to Wind: Elemental Critique in Recent Eastern European Video Art, a paper presentated in the panel "Environmental Narratives in Eastern European Cinema: From Communism to Capitalism" at the annual NECS International Conference, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland, June 14, 2019.

Environmental Memories of the Cold War in Moving-Image Art, a paper presented at the "Art in the Anthropocene" conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, June 8, 2019.

Objects and History on Film: Performing Cold War Past Eco-Critically, a paper presented at the 50th Annual ASEEES Convention, Boston, USA, December 7, 2018.

War Trauma as Cinematographic Specter, or Who Haunts Creative Documentary?, a lecture given at the Contemporary Art Center Reading Room, Vilnius, Lithuania, August 30, 2018.

Name of an Animal?, participation in the discussion curated by artist Aurelija Maknytė, Contemporary Art Center Cinema, Vilnius, Lithuania, August 1, 2018.

Mermaid with a Movie Camera, a paper presented at the NECS International Conference, University of Amsterdam (UvA), Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 27, 2018.

Eco-Cinema Beyond Point of View: Affective Images of Hyperobjects and Ontological Po(e/li)tics, a paper presented at the "Expressions and Images of the Posthuman" workshop, Posthumanism Research Institute, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada, April 15, 2018.

Domestic Spaces in the Films by New Generation of Baltic Filmmakers, a talk given and discussion moderated at The Undercurrent, Brooklyn, New York, USA, March 25, 2018.

Non-Human Perspective and Cinematic Meshwork in Béla Tarr's Films, a paper presented at the SCMS International Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 14, 2018.

Sensorial Reconsideration of Materials in Films by Lithuanian Contemporary Artists. A paper presentated at NECS International Conference, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. June 21, 2017.

On the Possibility of Object Position Film Theory. A paper presented at SCMS International Conference, Chicago, USA. March 24, 2017.

Haunting Spaces: Socialist Urban Space in Recent Post-Soviet Films from Baltic Countries. A paper presentated at the international conference "Space and Cinema". University of Lisbon. Lisbon, Portugal. December 1, 2016.

Temporal Realism in Lithuanian Documentary Films of the Early 1990s. A paper presented at the international conference "The Real of Reality, an International Conference on Philosophy and Film", ZKM | Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany. November 3, 2016.

Reenactment of Cinematographic Past: Complex Temporal Objects Situated Between Cinema and Contemporary Art. A paper presentated at the international conference "Film-Philosophy". University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. July 6, 2016.

Cinematic (Re)Turn to Documentary Archives: New Historicity(-ies) in PostSocialist Found Footage Films. A paper presentated at XXXI CICOM TiMeDoc Conference: Time and Memory in Non-fiction Cinema. Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. June 22, 2016.

Post-Historical Space through Lenses of Moving Camera, a paper presentated at the SCMS International Conference, Atlanta, USA. March 20, 2016.

Representation of Present-day Inhabitants of Socialist Urban Space in Post-Soviet Films from Baltic Countries. A paper presentated at Film & History conference (theme: "Journeys, Detours, Breakdowns, Panel: Post-Socialist Cinema I: Out of the Past?"). University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA. November 7, 2015.

Reconsideration of Materiality of Monumental Memory in Films by Contemporary Artists from Baltic Countries. A paper presentated at Mnemonics Conference. King’s College London, England. September 10, 2015.

Temporal Dimension of Nonrepresentational Realism in Early Films by Sarunas Bartas. A paper presentated at the international conference "Philosophy and Film: Thinking Reality and Time through Film". The University of Lisbon, Portugal. May 6, 2014.

Public conversation with Canadian film director Denis Côté at Kaunas International Film Festival. Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. 28 September 2013.

Re-edited Images from the Communist Film Archive – Possibilities for New Interpretations of the Recent Past, a paper presented at the international film studies conference “Visible Evidence.” A panel: “Post-Communism and the Politics of Memory”, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. 16 August 2013.

The Archival (Re)Turn: New Imagery of Soviet People in Post-Soviet Compilation Films, a paper presentated at the international film studies and film philosophy conference “Film-Philosophy: Beyond Film.” A panel: “Re-writing Film History”, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (University of Amsterdam), Amsterdam, Netherlands. 10 July 2013.

Public Conversaion with Film Director Sergei Loznitsa (together with Lina Kaminskaite and Giedre Beinoriute). Mediateque, Vilnius, Lithuania. 17 March 2013.

In Search of the Past Time: Memory, History and Found Film Footage, A moderator of the public discussion, a part of the project Cinémémoire, Mediateque, Vilnius, Lithuania. 15 November 2012.

A Non-human Experience of Film, a talk as a "copy" of Laura Kaminskaite’s conceptual artwork “Crocodile is strolling through the shows”. Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania. 4 July 2012.

On the Possibility of Non-representational Film Realism, a paper presentated at the annual interdisciplinary conference “Religion and Culture.” A panel: “Philosophical Researches of Film Art” (the panel’s chair: Jūratė Baranova, PhD), Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. 5 May 2012.

What is The Meaning of Cinema for Mikhail Iampolski?, A presentation on the notion of temporality in Iampolski's film theory given in the discussion panel during Mikhail Iampolski’s book Language, Body, Chance: Cinema and the Search for Meaning launch (panel’s chair: Natalija Arlauskaite, PhD). Mediateque, Vilnius, Lithuania. 18 April 2012.

A Face in Front of The Camera: A Public Conversation with Hungarian Filmmaker Béla Tarr at Kaunas International Film Festival. Vytautas Magnus University Gallery “101”. Kaunas, Lithuania. 5 October 2011.