About

The Brakhage Center for Media Arts is named after Stan Brakhage (1933-2003), one of the most innovative filmmakers of the 20th century who was also a Distinguished Professor of Film Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A prolific filmmaker, he made nearly 350 films in his 52-year-long career that include psychodramas, autobiographical films, Freudian trance films, song cycles, birth films, meditations on light, and hand-painted films. They range in duration from nine seconds to over four hours and cover every technical format from Super 8mm to 70mm IMAX. 

The Brakhage Center aims to promote education and research regarding the historical, cultural, and artistic significance of experimental film and media art to students, scholars, and the public. We work closely with Rare and Distinctive Collections at the University of Colorado Libraries, which houses the paper collections of Stan Brakhage and other avant-garde artists and emphasize the preservation and research of Stan Brakhage’s pioneering legacy, as well as the works of other ground-breaking experimental film and media artists. We seek to encourage new artistic talent and foster broad institutional collaboration in promoting new perspectives of the avant-garde film and media art world, creative research and artistic endeavor at the national and international levels and collaborate with other institutions and centers to sponsor events relating to the experimental and media arts field.