IV. Afterlife in Images
Admission:
General $10
Student $7
July 28, 2026, 8:30pm
Brooklyn NY 11205
USA
Join us on Tuesday, July 28 at the e-flux Screening Room rooftop for Afterlife in Images, the fourth and the last part of the outdoor screening series Leap of Faith, bringing together artists’ films and cinema features from Brazil, Belgium, Spain, Vietnam, Japan, and the United States.
Modern life was supposed to make the world more rational and easier to explain. Yet many experiences resist rational explanation: an illness without a clear cause, an ethical demand that changes a life, the presence of the dead, an image that outlives what it records. The films in this program engage with experiences that transcend what exists within the concrete, physical world. To take a leap of faith, here, is to act on the chance that this world holds more than it shows.
Screenings take place on Tuesdays from July 7–28, 2026, and begin after sunset on our rooftop. Read more about the series here.
IV. Afterlife in Images
Tuesday, July 28, 2026, 8:30pm
What happens after we die? These films approach the question through technologies of recording and simulation. Memories are recreated and projected onto a screen; digital replicas outlive the objects they once represented. The wager here is whether an image still holds something of a life once the body and the world around it have disappeared.
Coleman Collins, Specular Fiction (2024, US, 8 minutes)
In an imagined future of indeterminate distance, the objects of the world have been destroyed, leaving behind only the mirror-world of their digital replicas.
Hirokazu Kore-eda, After Life (1998, Japan, 119 minutes)
In After Life, the recently dead arrive in a limbo-like institution where they must choose one memory from life to carry into eternity. A small staff then recreates each selected memory on film. Kore-eda
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.
In case of rain, the event will take place in our indoor Screening Room.
