2025 Brakhage Symposium
Saturday March 1st and Sunday March 2nd Ìý
at the University of Colorado Boulder
This event is free and open to the public.
This year's symposium explores dialogues of passage and new forms of travel– geographical, cultural, internal, and imagined.ÌýWe're excited to feature an outstanding lineup of talented filmmakers, including Mike Hoolboom, Shambhavi Kaul, and Lei Lei.
In addition, we are honored to present a special screening of films by Lillian Schwartz, a pioneer of computer-generated art. Kristen Gallerneaux of the Henry Ford and writer Rebekah Rutkoff will introduce this program.Ìý
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Co-sponsored by the Division of Arts and Humanities and the University Libraries.
Saturday March 1st
Stan Brakhage Film Program, on 16mm film!
Shambhavi KaulÌýFilm Program
Mike HoolboomÌýFilm Program
Lei LeiÌýFilm Program
Sunday March 2nd
Lillian Schwartz Film Program, introduced by Kristen Gallerneaux & Rebekah Rutkoff
Group Screening featuring the work of Mike Hoolboom, Shambhavi Kaul, and Lei Lei
Moderated Discussion Panel
Featured Artists
LeiÌýLei, born in 1985. His works are based on the organization and research of ready-made and found images, combined with digital shooting and parody, weaving together abandoned images, oral histories, fragmented online videos, official documentaries, commercial product catalogs, myths or legends, etc., to create visual poetry and prose.ÌýLeiÌýLei's art works include films, live music and drama. His video installation works have been exhibited in institutions such as the UCCA in Beijing, Shanghai OCAT Art Museum, Xi'an OCAT Art Museum, Shanghai MOCA Art Center, Tokyo TOP Museum, and Rencontres d'Arles International Photography Festival in France, and have been collected by important art institutions and art galleries. In addition,ÌýLeiÌýLei's film works have been selected and won awards at important international film festivals including the Berlinale Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, New York MoMA NFND, Melbourne Film Festival, and Hong Kong International Film Festival.
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Shambhavi Kaul is an experimental filmmaker whose projects speculate on the possibilities for cinematic storytelling to build worlds. Her films make temporal and spatial demarcations porous by reorganizing cinematic space and layering historical, mythical, geological, ecological, and cultural timescales. Eventually, audiences consider their own time and space in relation to survival, the environment, and these filmic worlds. She has exhibited her work worldwide at film festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival, Berlinale, New York, Rotterdam, Edinburgh and London film festivals, Oberhausen, and Experimenta Bangalore among others. She has presented her work at museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate, London. She has had two solo gallery shows at Jhaveri Contemporary in Mumbai. She was born in Jodhpur India, and lives in the United States where she is a professor at Duke University.
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Mike Hoolboom began making movies in 1980. Making as practice, a daily application. Ongoing remixology. 100+ movies. Feature-length bio docs, then ongoing series about capitalism. The animating question of community: how can I help you? Interviews with media artists for 3 decades. 30+ books, written, edited, co-edited. Local ecologies. Volunteerism. Opening the door. His films and videos screened at more than 200 film festivals worldwide. He’s a founding member of the Pleasure Dome Collective, former director of the Images Festival and coordinator of experimental films at the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre.
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Lillian Schwartz is best known for her pioneering work in the use of computers for what has since become known as computer-generated art and computer-aided art analysis, including graphics, film, video, animation, special effects, Virtual Reality and Multimedia. Her work was recognized for its aesthetic success and was the first in this medium to be acquired by The Museum of Modern Art.
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