Kelly Sears isn’t impatient, but she’s eager for the 2025 Brakhage Symposium to begin. “I’m ready to hit play and see it unfold,” the CU Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts associate professor and filmmaker says. She’s not alone. For … Continue reading ‘New Forms of Cinema.’ Previewing the 2025 Brakhage Symposium
Ken Jacobs is coming back to Boulder, and it’s kind of a big deal. “He’s part of the history of poetic cinema/experimental cinema, the pivotal group of New York City artists,” Hanna Rose Shell says. A filmmaker in her own right, … Continue reading Living Archive, Living Cinema
From those displaced by politics to those displaced by climate, one of the familiar, and terrifying, themes of the 21st century is dislocation. For some, geographical fracture manifests itself physically, endangering health, and jeopardizing safety. For others, the fracture manifests … Continue reading Uncertain Voyages, Unstable Terrains: Previewing the [canceled] 2020 Brakhage Center Symposium
An object is not without context, and a perspective is not without a point of view. For British philosopher Alan Watts, this was a question of magnification. For example, take a photograph: look at it close up, and you see … Continue reading Truth at Every Level: Previewing the 2019 Brakhage Center Symposium
Say it, no ideas but in things. —William Carlos Williams, Paterson As the legend goes, when poet William Carlos Williams sat down to pen what would become his five-book opus, Paterson, he sought to do for his New Jersey city what James … Continue reading The Reality of Experience: Previewing the 2018 Brakhage Center Symposium
Many filmmakers have strode the hallowed halls of the University of Colorado Boulder: Derek Cianfrance, Dalton Trumbo, and Alex Cox are just a few, but if there is one name that towers over the rest it is the godfather of … Continue reading Images from the Underground: Previewing the 2017 Brakhage Center Symposium
To borrow a line from French filmmaker and critic Jean-Luc Godard, “Cinema is everywhere.” And from March 4-6, cinema is indeed everywhere in Boulder. Around Boulder, Longmont, and Broomfield, the Boulder International Film Festival screens over 50 features, documentaries, and … Continue reading Cinema’s Walk on the Wild Side: Previewing the 2016 Brakhage Center Symposium
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