Mudmap Magazine

We’ve been following @alsolikelife Kevin B. Lee’s work for years now, one of the defining figures of contemporary cinema. Almost twenty years working between filmmaking and something else nobody has fully named yet, running through movies, video essay, desktop documentary, artistic research, teaching, all circling around the question of how images circulate.

Much of that trajectory runs through his time at the Harun Farocki Institute, where he absorbed Farocki’s core move, treating images less as objects to admire and more as evidence of the systems that produce and circulate them.

In this conversation he talks about what actually defines a generation’s relationship to cinema, platforms replacing single films as cultural monuments, the gap between deep attention and hyperattention, Bazin’s idea of cinema as a technology of preservation, and how infinite storage has quietly produced a kind of mass forgetting, offloading memory itself onto the cloud and now onto AI.

Full interview up on mudmapmagazine.com