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
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
It’s not looking good for local theaters big and small. Cinemark plans to reopen their theaters on July 1—but even that seems suspect. They hope to get things up and running for Christopher Nolan’s latest, Tenet, still scheduled for a … Continue reading Streaming Cat Blues: Week Two
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
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
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
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
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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