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Spring 2026 Programs
The Brakhage Symposium
February 21st & 22nd
Atlas 100
We're excited to feature an outstanding lineup of filmmakers for the 2026 symposium, including:
Stephanie Barber, A.S.M. Kobayashi, and Deborah Stratman
1990s Experimental Film in Japan: Women’s Anarchic Visions of the Everyday
Curated by Wakae Nakane and Miryam Sas
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Emerging from Japan’s independent film culture of the 1990s, these five works by women filmmakers mark a quiet but decisive shift within experimental cinema. Enabled by the growing accessibility of small-gauge film and alternative exhibition spaces, the filmmakers move away from strict formal abstraction toward the textures of everyday life, bodies, rituals, and intimacies.
Across animation, performance, and experimental narrative forms, the films attend to gendered power relations, sexuality, and the fragile boundaries between private experience and social structure. Playful, unsettling, and resistant to easy classification, they articulate an anarchic language that renders the familiar strange, inviting viewers to linger in the ambiguities of intimacy and desire.
Free and Open to the Public
Scholar Talk
March 9th, 1 PM
Atlas 102
John Powers, Assistant Professor of FilmÌýand Media Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Biographing Brakhage: Glimpses of a Work in Progress
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In this talk, John Powers will offer a preview ofÌýStan Brakhage: An American Artist, his in-progress biography of the trailblazing filmmaker––and ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß legend. Powers will share some of his discoveries and discuss some of the challenges of his research on Brakhage, which spans 68 archival collections, thousands of pages of primary source material, and over 60 interviews with Brakhage’s family, friends, andÌýcolleagues.Ìý
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Free and Open to the Public
Experimental Wednesday
2/11, 3/4, 4/ 15 at 4 PM
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.Ìý Screenings will be followed by lively conversation.
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Free and Open to the Public
