In case you somehow haven’t heard, the Sundance Film Festival might be coming to Boulder in 2027. “The Sundance Film Festival has a deep history in the Mountain West, and we can think of no better home for its next … Continue reading Coming Attraction? Unpacking Boulder’s bid for the Sundance Film Festival
Few figures loom as large in CU’s history as Stan Brakhage. As a filmmaker, his influence on the visual medium is incalculable—even if he’s not commonly known. (Brakhage is to cinema what The Velvet Underground was to rock ’n’ roll.) … Continue reading Celebrating Stan 20 Years On
His name might not be as synonymous with the development of cinematic grammar as Alice Guy-Blaché, Orson Welles, or Jean-Luc Godard, but experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage’s ripples are still felt in contemporary cinema. From The Act of Seeing With One’s … Continue reading BRAKHAGE
Watching a Stan Brakhage film is like dreaming with your eyes open. The collision of colors and shadows, images overlapping images, distortions, and rapid-fire editing imprints on your eye and synthesizes in your mind. Close your eyes, and what do … Continue reading Celebrating Stan
We are living in a golden age of cinema. You might not agree if your focus is solely on multiplexes infected with sequilities and franchise-expansion syndrome. And it might not look that way if your only unit of measure is … Continue reading An International State of Mind: Previewing the Fall 2019 International Film Series
Dear University of Colorado students: If I could offer you one word of advice—no, it’s not sunscreen—it would be this: Resources. Find them, use them, embrace them, stake your college career on them, and you will find yourself a better, … Continue reading Celebrating Stan
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