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Mondays from 12-1pm in the Brakhage Center, ATLAS 311

9/22: Kalpana SubramanianÌý

Kalpana Subramanian (Ph.D. University at Buffalo, State University of New York) is an artist, filmmaker, and scholar interested in transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches to film and media. Over the course of her career she has produced a diverse body of work spanning film and video art, photography, interactive media and music. Her recent work investigates experimental cinema through perspectives of embodiment from the Global South. Her practice-based doctoral research at the Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo, proposes an alternative framework of cinematic inquiry and praxis that she defines as a ‘‘Cinema of Breath.’ Her work has been presented in over 23 countries and has received various awards and honors. Venues include the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Images Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Flaherty NYC Seminar, UNESCO (France), Wildscreen UK, and National Gallery of Modern Art (Mumbai, India) among others.Ìý

10/20: Erin Espelie

Erin Espelie is a writer, editor, and filmmaker whose work connects with current scientific research, questions of epistemology, environmental precarity, and fallout from an increasingly image saturated culture. Her poetic, nonfiction films have shown at the New York Film Festival, the British Film Institute's London Film Festival, the Whitechapel Gallery, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Crossroads Film Festival at SFMoMA, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Imagine Science Film Festival, and more. Her feature-length film,ÌýThe Lanthanide Series,Ìýpremiered at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen and won the grand prize at the Seoul International New Media Festival in 2015; an interview about the film appears inÌýÌý(Oxford University Press, 2019).

11/10: Stacey Steers

Stacey’s animated short films have been screened throughout the U.S. and abroad and have received numerous awards. Her work has been featured at the Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Locarno International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New Directors New Films, New York, MoMA, The Lincoln Center, New York City, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Past solo exhibitions include the Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona; George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York; Denver Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; BMoCA, 91É«°É, Colorado; and the Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal.
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2 PM, ATLAS 102

In remembrance of Tomonari Nishikawa (1969-2025), we will project several of his 16MM films.

Nishikawa’s films, primarily shot on Super-8 and 16mm, are celebrated for their textured beauty, rhythmic precision, and masterful in-camera editing.ÌýHis films screened at major festivals including Berlinale, Rotterdam, and the New York Film Festival, and were exhibited at MoMA PS1 and the Museum of Contemporary Cinema in Spain. At the time of his passing, he was a beloved professor in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University.

4-5 PM Brakhage Center, Atlas 311

September 17, October 15, November 5

View films from Stan Brakhage and many other visionary experimental filmmakers on 16MM. Each screening will feature three short experimental films that clusters around a question.Ìý Screenings will be followed by lively conversation.

October 1st, 4-5 PM, Brakhage Center, Atlas 311

Please join us for Robert Schaller’s presentation on the Handmade Film Institute, eco-processing, and abundance.