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
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
This joy is immense. This hope is infinite. Yet … all is vain and ephemeral. Those words, spoken in whispered voiceover, express one of the closing thoughts of Cette maison, a movie bursting with ideas and insights. Written and directed … Continue reading Screened Reality: Previewing the 2024 Mimesis Documentary Festival
If you’re an independent filmmaker, getting into the Sundance Film Festival is high on your wishlist. “It’s such a big festival, and it’s such an industry festival,” Kelly Sears says. “I’m ecstatic that my little, scrappy film is invited to … Continue reading Kelly Sears on THE LOST SEASON
I ask my grandmother whether she remembers her old house. She says: ‘It’s good that I never had a photograph of my childhood home. Because if I had a photo of it, I would have forgotten what it looked like. … Continue reading Mimesis Documentary Festival 2022
It’s been 10 years since the Social-Democratic War of Liberation: “The most peaceful revolution the world has known.” So opens director Lizzie Borden’s incendiary 1983 film, Born in Flames—a guerrilla-style collage of archival footage, documentary, and scripted narrative that’s as relevant … Continue reading Kelly Sears on BORN IN FLAMES
Come sit and be swept away,” the Denver Film Festival boasts. And for the 38th time, it aims to do just that. Running Nov. 4-15, DFF beckons moviegoers young and old, new and seasoned, liberal and conservative, with roughly 250 … Continue reading Spotlight on Colorado: Dispatches From the 38th Denver Film Festival
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