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At this year\u2019s Locarno Film Festival, Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish participated in a fascinating experimental event called \u201cThe Future of Attention\u201d, curated by Rafael Dernbach, a researcher at the Universita della Svizzera italiana. A continuous 24-hour live talk moderated by three hosts\u2014including Devika\u2014and involving a new guest each hour, the event began at noon on August 10 and went on all the way to noon on August 11. Attendees were invited to sit, lounge, or even sleep in the audience as and when they wished. The idea was to not just discuss the workings of attention in contemporary film and media culture, but also to actively experience and challenge the various forms our attention may take over a sustained period of time.\n\nWe hope you\u2019ve been following along the last two weeks as we\u2019ve shared excerpts from Devika\u2019s hosting shift at the event, featuring conversations with filmmaker Helena Wittman, curator Giovanni Carmine, this year\u2019s Golden Leopard\u2013winner Julia Murat, and others.\n\nOur final episode is with a guest who has a job like no other: it\u2019s Kevin B. Lee, Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at Locarno Film Festival and USI. Kevin joined Devika to close out the 24-hour event with a fascinating discussion on how labor, pleasure, and the special state of attention that we call cinema.\n\nListen to the complete series here: https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/category/podcast/the-future-of-attention/