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Academic Year 2023-2024 Programs

Mark Alice Durant on Maya Deren

April 11, 2024

Scholar, artist and curator Mark Alice Durant will discuss his book Maya Deren: Choreographed for Camera with 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 by Stan Brakhage and Maya Deren from the Collection
ATLAS 100

 

Spring 2024 Experimental Thursdays

2:00pm-4:00pm ATLAS 311

February 8
Februrary 22
March 7
March 21
April 4

View short films by the visionary Stan Brakhage and 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.

Birds of Prey

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.”

Visual AIDS: A Day With(out) Art 2023

November 30th at 5 PM

The Brakhage Center is proud to collaborate with ’s LGBTQ Studies Program for the third year running, on A Day With(out)Art 2023 by presenting an all-new program of specially commissioned films. This year’s program, titled Everyone I Know Is Sick consists 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.

Fall 2023 Experimental Thursdays

12:30-2:00 PM, ATLAS 311

September 28
October 26
November 30