Student $7
General $10
October 7, 2025, 7pm
Brooklyn NY 11205
USA
Join us on Tuesday, October 7 at 7pm at e-flux Screening Room for the sixth installment of Economies of Love, presenting Yorgos Lanthimos’s Alps (2011, 93 minutes) preceded by Lucy Beech & Edward Thomasson’s Together (2017, 10 minutes).
This screening turns to situations when emotional and physical attachment is carried by stand-ins. Both works stage rituals of replacement in which what cannot truly be exchanged—desire or grief—is nonetheless acted out. In Alps, a clandestine group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process. The process depends on strict rules, contracts, and deliverables, but soon exposes the instability of standing in for what cannot return. Whereas in Together, a group of performers engage in a dance-based game to produce the sounds of body blows without the actual contact between bodies, replacing action with its signals and constructing a charged therapeutic atmosphere.
Films
Lucy Beech & Edward Thomasson, Together (2017, 10 minutes)
A dance-based group game in which performers use live foley to make the sounds of slaps, kicks, punches, and body blows. Without physical contact, the ensemble channels unvoiced feelings into a collectively produced soundtrack, building a climate that is at once passive and aggressive.
Yorgos Lanthimos, Alps (2011, 93 minutes)
A paramedic, a nurse, a gymnast, and her coach run a service for the bereaved, impersonating the recently deceased to replay everyday scenes. As one member refuses to let go of a role, the fragile boundary between assignment and identity collapses, revealing the precarious economies of care that substitution sustains.
Economies of Love is a 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. More information and an archive of previous screenings can be found here.
For more information, contact program[at]e-flux.com.
Accessibility
– Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
– For elevator access, please RSVP to program[at]e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator nearest to 180 Classon Ave (garage door) leading into the e-flux office space. A ramp is available for steps within the space.
– e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom with no steps between the event space and this bathroom.
