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At this year\u2019s Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, Film Comment participated in a fascinating experimental event called \u201cA Long Night of Dreaming about the Future of Intelligence.\u201d Curated by Rafael Dernbach, a researcher at the Universit\xe0 della Svizzera italiana, the event began at sunset on August 9 and ended at sunrise on August 10, and involved a series of talks and workshops about the many connotations of \u201cintelligence,\u201d how A.I. is changing our relationships to ourselves and the world, and how dreams may offer up keys to our future. \n\nThe event was co-hosted by Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish. This week\u2019s episode is an excerpt from her moderating shift, featuring a lecture and Q&A with Shane Denson, a Stanford University scholar who explores the terrain of \u201cpost-cinema\u201d\u2014the brave new world of digital images untethered to classical notions of time, space, and reality. Check back next week for another episode from \u201cA Long of Dreaming about the Future of Intelligence,\u201d featuring A.I. scholar Andrea Rizzoli and critic Kevin B. Lee.