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2024-2025 Academic Year Programs
Please join the Brakhage Center for the 2025 Brakhage Symposium
March 1st and 2nd in ATLAS 100, 91PORN
The Brakhage Symposium is a 2-day forum on contemporary experimental film and media, featuringscreenings and panel discussions with internationally renowned visiting filmmakers.
This event is free and open to the public.
Mondays from 4-5pm in the Brakhage Center, ATLAS 311
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. Screenings will be followed by lively conversation.
February 10th
March 17th
April 14th
Monday December 2nd at 5pm in The Brakhage Center, ATLAS 311
LGBTQ Studies and The Brakhage Center is proud to partner with @visual_aids for Day With(out) Art 2024 by presenting Red Reminds Me..., a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.
The program features new work by Gian Cruz, Milko Delgado, Imani Harrington,David Oscar Harvey, Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar, Nixie, and Vasilios Papapitsios. A day of mourning and action that uses art to respond to the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis, Day With(out) Art encourages museums, universities, museums, and art institutions to present related programming on or around December 1, World AIDS Day. Because AIDS is not over!
Mondays from 2-3pm in the Brakhage Center, ATLAS 311
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. Screenings will be followed by lively conversation.
September 23
October 14
October 28
November 18
December 2
Thursday September 26 at 1 PM in the Brakhage Center - ATLAS 311
Filmmaker and writer Karel Doing will talk about his research into film deterioration and his experiments with growing images. After working closely together with film archivists Doing became fascinated with the effects created by fungi on nitrate film. This led him to do further research which eventually guided him toward the invention of the phytogram. Doing will talk about his process and his book Ruins and Resilience: the longevity of experimental film (Goldsmiths Press, 2024) Additionally, two of his films will be screened.
Wednesday November 13 at 1:30 PM in the Phil Solomon Screening Room - ATLAS 102
TessTakahashiwill discuss abstraction and embodied modes of mark making in relation to questions of race, gender, and sexuality in artisanalfilms that draw on the tradition of Brakhage’s work: Emma Hart'sSkin Film(UK, 2005-8) and Ja’Tovia Gary’sAn Ecstatic Experience(US, 2015).
Abstraction in experimental film has functioned as a perplexing blank space for critics, who too often want to connect the abstract image to a solid anchor of meaning – like the body of the artist who made it. But when this anchor is a racialized, gendered, or sexually desiring body, it can have the effect of repeating familiar stereotypes. What happens if, instead of reading these films as demonstrations of selfhood, we read them as opening spaces that interrogate this very relationship?
Academic Year 2023-2024 Programs
April 11, 2024
Scholar, artist and curatorMark Alice Durantwilldiscuss his bookMaya Deren: Choreographed for Camerawith related film programming.
2:00 pm — Public Screening
In the Mirror of Maya Deren(dir. Martina Kudlácek, 2001)
Brakhage Center, ATLAS 311
5:00 pm — Public Lecture
Mark Alice Durant presents “Maya Deren: Choreographed for the Camera”
Eaton Humanities [HUMN] 135
7:30 pm — Public Screening
16mm Short Films byStan Brakhage and Maya Deren from the CU Collection
ATLAS 100
2:00pm-4:00pm ATLAS 311
February 8
Februrary 22
March 7
March 21
April 4
View short films by the visionary Stan Brakhageand other experimental filmmakers on 16mm and engage in conversation with fellow experimental film-makers and film lovers. Hosted by Brakhage Center Artist-in-Residence and MFA Candidate in Film Sierra Grove.
Artist talk and conversation with Artist-in-Residence Cody Norton
December 7th at 4:00 PM
The Brakhage Center for Media Arts’s AIR Program, established in 2021, is inspired by the exquisiteness of Stan Brakhage’s engagement with, and integration of, found footage, including scientific and other archival materials Brakhage Center residents receive a studio at the Brakhage Center, and a stipend, and with both the archival film collections, and the Stan Brakhage Papers, held in Rare and Distinctive Collections.Cody Norton’s presentation is titled “Birds of Prey: Acts of Reconstruction.”
November 30th at 5 PM
The Brakhage Centeris proud to collaborate with CU’sLGBTQ StudiesProgram for the third year running, onA Day With(out)Art 2023by presenting an all-new program of specially commissioned films. This year’s program, titledEveryone I Know Is Sickconsists of five new videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability. A day of mourning and action that uses art to respond to the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis, Day With(out) Art encourages museums, universities, museums, and art institutions to present related programming on or around December 1, World AIDS Day. The program features new work by Dolissa Medina & Ananias P. Soria, Dorothy Cheung, Beau Gomez, Kurt Weston, and Hiura Fernandes & Lili Nascimento.
12:30-2:00 PM, ATLAS 311
September 28
October 26
November 30