Afterlives

Theatrical release June XX: AFTERLIVES by Kevin B. Lee

In his first feature-length desktop documentary for cinema, filmmaker Kevin B. Lee delves into the historical traces of extremist propaganda and the efforts of those resisting its violent impacts. 'Afterlives' explores how to confront the violence encoded in this media, reaching beyond its toxic effects to engage power structures spanning from the colonial past to the digital age. Moving between virtual and physical environments, the film encounters an artist, an activist and a researcher, who each use the legacy of violent extremism to create new images and narratives with new possibilities for the future.

"(...) Afterlives is a dedicated, reflective documentary, the bell of its urgency ringing far into the futures of images." BFI London Review: Kevin B. Lee's Debut Feature Afterlives Interrogates Terrorist Propaganda| Savina Petkova | The Film Stage

"(...) Visceral and straightforwardly emotional... with eerie formal poetry in copious quantities." Critique: Afterlives | David Katz | Cineuropa

"Lee has been far ahead of the curve for years in terms of how documentaris can streamline the conveyance of information, this film feels like a natural development of his style and voice." Notes from London Film Festical (III.) | Joel Whitaker | Cinema Year Zero

"(...) Afterlives is a kick-off film, as a starting point of a critical discussion that needs to be continued, as a temporary cinema crystallization that deconstructs the dynamic of spectacle in order to open up a restless, filmic territory where affective intelligence reactivates media theory." AFTERLIVES | Giuseppe Di Salvatore | Filmexplorer

Festivals
Doclisboa International Film Festival - New Visions 2025
BFI London Film Festival - Experimenta Special Presentation 2025
Stockholm International Film Festival - Documentary Competition 2025
Milano Filmmaker Festival 2025

AFTERLIVES
D/F/BE 2025, 88 min, DCP, 16:9, Colour, Language: English, German, Language Version: OV with German subs
Director & Script Kevin B. Lee, Director of Photography Ginan Seidl, Editor & Script Editor Janina Herhoffer, Sound Recording Aline Bonvin, Sound Design Laszlo Umbreit, Mix Rémi Gérard, Music Tadklimp, Maya Shenfeld, 1st AD Konstanze Winter, Creative Producer & Dramaturg Mareike Bernien, Producer Caroline Kirberg, Co-Producers Beata Saboova, Vincent Metzinger. Produced by pong film, Berlin, Germany In Co-Production with Naoko Films, Brussels, Belgium & Pivonka Production, Paris, France

with Kevin B. Lee, Morehshin Allahyari, Nava Zarabian, Anne Speckhard, Sebastian Baden, Bernd Zywietz, Yorck Beese, Katrin Rademacher

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