Programs
2025-2026 Academic Year Programs
Monday, December 1st, at 4 PM in the Brakhage Center, ATLAS 311
Mondays from 12-1pm in the Brakhage Center, ATLAS 311
9/22: Kalpana SubramanianÌý
10/20: Erin Espelie
11/10: Stacey Steers
October 1st, 4-5 PM, Brakhage Center, Atlas 311
RobertÌýSchallerÌýdiscusses the Handmade Film Institute's efforts to create a path to filmmaking that is physically and economically humane and human-scale, based in scientific and aesthetic understanding. Focusing on what nearly two decades of the Wilderness Film Expedition has revealed about the environmental and infrastructural challenges that face the artist who would work with film, he will share what place-based filmmaking in the wild teaches us about filmmaking, humanity, creativity, and our place in the world.
Wednesday, November 19th, 2 PM, ATLAS 102
In remembrance of Tomonari Nishikawa (1969-2025), we will project several of his 16MM films.
Nishikawa’s films, primarily shot on Super-8 and 16mm, are celebrated for their textured beauty, rhythmic precision, and masterful in-camera editing.ÌýHis films screened at major festivals including Berlinale, Rotterdam, and the New York Film Festival, and were exhibited at MoMA PS1 and the Museum of Contemporary Cinema in Spain. At the time of his passing, he was a beloved professor in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University.
4-5 PM Brakhage Center, Atlas 311
September 17, October 15, November 5
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.
2024-2025 Academic Year Programs
Please join the Brakhage Center for the 2025 Brakhage SymposiumÌý
March 1st and 2nd in ATLAS 100, ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß
The Brakhage Symposium is a 2-day forum on contemporary experimental film and media, featuringÌýscreenings 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.Ìý Screenings will be followed by lively conversation.
February 10th
March 17th
April 14th
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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..., Ìýa 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,ÌýDavid 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.Ìý 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
TessÌýTakahashiÌýwill discuss abstraction and embodied modes of mark making in relation to questions of race, gender, and sexuality in artisanalÌýfilms that draw on the tradition of Brakhage’s work: Emma Hart'sÌýSkin FilmÌý(UK, 2005-8) and Ja’Tovia Gary’sÌýAn Ecstatic ExperienceÌý(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?
Brakhage Center Symposium
A Forum on Contemporary Experimental Film and Media from 2005-2020